ANTIQUE  CHINESE  FORGED-  RMS 


Lilly 

NK 

4565 

.C383 

1920 


Property  of  the  Estate 
of  the  late 

Mr.  RUDOLPH  E*  SHIRMER 
and  of 

Mrs.  MARTHA  B.  SHIRMER 


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The 

JAMES  A.  THOMAS 
COLLECTION 


DUKE  UNIVERSITY  LIBRARY 
DURHAM,  N,  C, 


Date 


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ANTIQUE  CHINESE  PORCELAINS 


THE  PROPERTY  OF  THE  ESTATE  OF  THE  LATE 

MR.  RUDOLPH  E.  SCHIRMER 

AND  OF 

MRS.  MARTHA  B.  SCHIRMER 


TO  BE  SOLD  AT  UNRESTRICTED  PUBLIC  SALE 

UNDER  THE  MANAGEMENT  OF 

THE  AMERICAN  ART  ASSOCIATION 

MADISON  SQUARE  SOUTH 
NEW  YORK 


ON  FREE  PUBLIC  VIEW 


AT  THE  AMERICAN  ART  GALLERIES 

MADISON  SQUARE  SOUTH,  NEW  YORK 

BEGINNING  SATURDAY,  MARCH  13th,  1920 

FROM  9  A.  M.  UNTIL  6  P.M. 

AND  CONTINUING  UNTIL  THE  DAY  OF  SALE 


ANTIQUE  CHINESE  PORCELAINS 
ORIENTAL  CABINET  OBJECTS 
AND  OTHER  ARTISTIC  PROPERTY 


TO  BE  SOLD  AT  UNRESTRICTED  PUBLIC  SALE 

BY  DIRECTION  OF  THE  OWNER 

AT  THE  AMERICAN  ART  GALLERIES 

ON  WEDNESDAY  AFTERNOON,  MARCH  17th 

BEGINNING  AT  2.30  O’CLOCK 


CATALOGUE 

OF 

ANTIQUE  CHINESE  PORCELAINS 

FAMILLE  VERTE,  SINGLE  COLORS  AND 
BLUE  AND  WHITE  SPECIMENS 
AND  ORIENTAL  CABINET  OBJECTS 


TO  BE  SOLD  AT  UNRESTRICTED  PUBLIC  SALE 


FOR  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  ESTATE  OF  THE  LATE 

MR.  RUDOLPH  E.  SCHIRMER 

AND  FOR  ACCOUNT  OF 

MRS.  MARTHA  B.  SCHIRMER 

ON  WEDNESDAY  AFTERNOON,  MARCH  17th,  1920 


AT  THE  AMERICAN  ART  GALLERIES 


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THE  SALE  WILL  BE  CONDUCTED  BY 

MR.  THOMAS  E.  KIRBY 

AND  HIS  ASSISTANTS,  MR.  OTTO  BERNET  AND  MR.  H.  H.  PARKE 

OF  THE 

AMERICAN  ART  ASSOCIATION,  Managers 

NEW  YORK 


1920 


THE  AMERICAN  ART  ASSOCIATION 
DESIGNS  ITS  CATALOGUES  AND  DIRECTS 
ALL  DETAILS  OF  ILLUSTRATION 
TEXT  AND  TYPOGRAPHY 


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CONDITIONS  OF  SALE 


1.  Any  bid  which  is  merely  a  nominal  or  fractional  advance 
may  be  rejected  by  the  auctioneer,  if,  in  his  judgment,  such  bid 
would  be  likely  to  affect  the  sale  injuriously. 

2.  The  highest  bidder  shall  be  the  buyer,  and  if  any  dispute 
arise  between  two  or  more  bidders,  the  auctioneer  shall  either  de¬ 
cide  the  same  or  put  up  for  re-sale  the  lot  so  in  dispute. 

3.  Payment  shall  be  made  of  all  or  such  part  of  the  pur¬ 
chase  money  as  may  be  required,  and  the  names  and  addresses  of 
the  purchasers  shall  be  given  immediately  on  the  sale  of  every  lot, 
in  default  of  which  the  lot  so  purchased  shall  be  immediately  put 
up  again  and  re-sold. 

Payment  of  that  part  of  the  purchase  money  not  made  at 
the  time  of  sale  shall  be  made  within  ten  days  thereafter,  in  de¬ 
fault  of  which  the  undersigned  may  either  continue  to  hold  the 
lots  at  the  risk  of  the  purchaser  and  take  such  action  as  may  be 
necessary  for  the  enforcement  of  the  sale,  or  may  at  public  or 
private  sale,  and  without  other  than  this  notice,  re-sell  the  lots 
for  the  benefit  of  such  purchaser,  and  the  deficiency  (if  any)  aris¬ 
ing  from  such  re-sale  shall  be  a  charge  against  such  purchaser. 

4.  Delivery  of  any  purchase  will  be  made  only  upon  pay¬ 
ment  of  the  total  amount  due  for  all  purchases  at  the  sale. 

Deliveries  will  be  made  on  sales  days  between  the  hours  of 
9  A.  M.  and  1  P.  M.,  and  on  other  da}rs — except  holida}rs — 
between  the  hours  of  9  A.  M.  and  5  P.  M. 

Delivery  of  any  purchase  will  be  made  only  at  the  American 
Art  Galleries,  or  other  place  of  sale,  as  the  case  may  be,  and  only 
on  presenting  the  bill  of  purchase. 

Delivery  may  be  made,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Association, 
of  any  purchase  during  the  session  of  the  sale  at  which  it  was  sold. 


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5.  Shipping,  boxing  or  wrapping  of  purchases  is  a  business 
in  which  the  Association  is  in  no  wise  engaged,  and  will  not  be 
performed  by  the  Association  for  purchasers.  The  Association 
will,  however,  afford  to  purchasers  every  facility  for  employing 
at  current  and  reasonable  rates  carriers  and  packers ;  doing  so, 
however,  without  any  assumption  of  responsibility  on  its  part 
for  the  acts  and  charges  of  the  parties  engaged  for  such  service. 

6.  Storage  of  any  purchase  shall  be  at  the  sole  risk  of  the 
purchaser.  Title  passes  upon  the  fall  of  the  auctioneer’s  hammer, 
and  thereafter,  while  the  Association  will  exercise  due  caution  in 
caring  for  and  delivering  such  purchase,  it  will  not  hold  itself 
responsible  if  such  purchase  be  lost,  stolen,  damaged  or  destroyed. 

Storage  charges  will  be  made  upon  all  purchases  not  removed 
within  ten  days  from  the  date  of  the  sale  thereof. 

7.  Guarantee  is  not  made  either  by  the  owner  or  the  Asso¬ 
ciation  of  the  correctness  of  the  description,  genuineness  or  au¬ 
thenticity  of  any  lot,  and  no  sale  will  be  set  aside  on.  account  of 
any  incorrectness,  error  of  cataloguing,  or  any  imperfection  not 
noted.  Every  lot  is  on  public  exhibition  one  or  more  days  prior 
to  its  sale,  after  which  it  is  sold  “as  is”  and  without  recourse. 

The  Association  exercises  great  care  to  catalogue  every  lot 
correctly,  and  will  give  consideration  to  the  opinion  of  any  trust¬ 
worthy  expert  to  the  effect  that  any  lot  has  been  incorrectly  cata¬ 
logued,  and,  in  its  judgment,  may  either  sell  the  lot  as  catalogued 
or  make  mention  of  the  opinion  of  such  expert,  who  thereby  would 
become  responsible  for  such  damage  as  might  result  were  his 
opinion  without  proper  foundation. 

AMERICAN  ART  ASSOCIATION, 

American  Art  Galleries, 
Madison  Square  South. 


CATALOGUE 


The  American  Art  Association 

MANAGER 

SALE  AT  THE  AMERICAN  ART  GALLERIES 
THE  SCHRIMER  COLLECTION 
Afternoon  of  Wednesday,  March  I  7th,  1920 

To  save  time  and  to  prevent  mistakes  each  Purchaser  will 
oblige  the  Manager  by  filling  in  this  slip  and  handing  it 
to  the  Record  Clerk  or  Sales  Attendant  on  making  the  first 
purchase. 

Purchaser’s  Name 
Address  in  Full 


Amount  of  Deposit 


AFTERNOON  SALE 

WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  17,  1920 


AT  THE  AMERICAN  ART  GALLERIES 

BEGINNING  AT  2.30  O'CLOCK 


JADE,  ROCK  CRYSTAL  AND  OTHER  HARD 

STONES 

1 —  Glass  Snuff  Bottle 

Bulbous  flask  shape  with  lion-mask  and  ring  handles  in 
relief.  Transparent  glass  of  pale  amber  tone. 

2 —  Glass  Snuff  Bottle 

Bulbous  flask  shape.  Translucent  glass  in  imitation  of 
white  jade,  with  soft  polish. 

3 —  Fei-ts’ui  Jade  Snuff  Bottle 

Ovoid  and  flattened,  with  delicate  foot  and  flaring  lip. 
Delicately  mottled  fei-ts'ui  jade  with  a  bright  but  soft 
polish. 

4 —  Agate  Snuff  Bottle 

Bulbous  flask  shape.  Translucent  and  opaque  gray 
and  brownish  marbled  agate  with  bright  polish. 

5 —  Jade  Snuff  Bottle 

Globular-jar  form,  flattened.  Gray-white  jade  with 
soft  polish,  obverse  and  reverse  carved  with  phoenix 
and  peony  in  relief ;  silver-gilt  stopper. 


Afternoon  Sale 


6 —  Jade  Snuff  Bottle 

Flattened  and  irregular  eggplant-shape ;  translucent 
grayish-white  jade  with  russet  mottlings  from  ferrous 
percolation ;  soft  polish. 

7 —  Amber  Snuff  Bottle 

Globular  form,  flattened.  Opaque  yellowish-brown 
amber  broadly  mottled ;  ground  and  compressed ;  soft 
polish. 

8 —  Jasper  Jade  Snuff  Bottle 

Flattened  flask-shape.  Richly  mottled  and  marked  in 
warm  tones  of  jasper-brown  and  flecked  with  dark 
green.  Soft  polish. 

9 —  Fei-ts’ui  Jade  Snuff  Bottle 

Flattened  flask-shape.  Gray  jade  with  fei-ts’ui  veins 
and  on  one  face  a  broad  area  of  the  delicate  fei-ts’ui 
green.  Bright  polish. 

10 — Fei-ts’ui  Jade  Snuff  Bottle 

Flattened  flask-shape.  Grayish  jade  richly  marbled 
on  one  face  with  the  emerald-green,  showing  more  deli¬ 
cate  traces  of  the  fei-ts’ui  on  the  reverse,  and  further 
veined  and  touched  with  soft  brown.  Brightly  polished. 


11 — Fei-ts’ui  Jade  Pagoda 

Four  stories  of  fei-ts’ui  jade  cylinders,  carved  and 
pierced,  the  diameter  less  as  the  stories  succeed  one 
another,  each  roofed  in  green  and  blue  enamel ;  on 
octagonal  base  of  carved  wood  superposed  upon  a 
quadrilateral  base  of  gilt  bronze,  chased  and  repousse. 

Height,  19 y2  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


12 —  Sunspot  Snuff  Bottle 

Flattened  globular  form.  Grayish  jade-stone  with  a 
broad  patch  of  jasper- red  on  one  face,  set  with  minute 
inlays  which  glisten  silvery-white;  soft  polish. 

13 —  Fei-ts’ui  Jade  Snuff  Bottle 

Flattened  ovoidal  form  with  low  foot.  Cloudy-white 
jade  with  delicate  fei-ts’tii  markings  and  brilliant 
polish. 

14—  — Jade  Snuff  Bottle 

Flattened  flask  shape  with  rounding  shoulders  and 
underbody  and  low  foot ;  on  each  face  a  plain  panel 
in  low  relief,  and  on  each  side  a  vertical  relief  strip, 
grooved.  Jade  of  liquescent  mutton-fat  tone  and 
unctuous  surface. 

15 —  Antique  Jade  Vase 

Yellowish- white  jade  with  greenish  trend,  carved  as  a 
bamboo  stalk,  with  peaches  of  longevity  and  the  sacred 
fungus  in  relief  at  the  base. 

16 —  Ornamental  Jade  Table  Screen 

Composed  of  two  oblong  tablets  of  white  jade,  carved 
and  pierced  each  with  the  figure  of  a  smiling  immortal 
holding  a  lotus  flower  and  a  ju-i  sceptre,  set  upright  in 
a  carved  buffalo-horn  stand. 

Height  of  tablets,  3 %  inches  each. 

17 —  White  Jade  Vase  with  Cover 

Elliptical  on  a  low  flanged  foot.  Reciprocal  cover  with 
two  loop  and  loose-ring  handles,  surmounted  bv  a 
land  dragon  and  fungus  in  relief.  Soft  polish. 

Height,  3 y8  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


18 —  Carved  Jade  Vase 

Flattened  globular  form  witli  wide  neck  and  two 
pierced  scroll  handles,  body  encompassed  by  a  finely 
cut  band  of  fret  and  riding  on  waves  of  the  sea,  which 
support  also  two  dragons  carved  in  relief  and  under¬ 
cut,  at  the  sides  of  the  vase.  White  jade  of  mutton-fat 
texture  with  waxen  polish. 

Height,  3%  inches. 

19 —  Amrer-composition  Vase 

Quadrilateral  with  rounded  corners,  a  dragon  in  re¬ 
lief  and  undercut  coiling  about  the  shoulder  and  neck 
and  looking  over  the  lip.  Material  ground  and  com¬ 
pressed,  and  presenting  a  richly  variegated  color-mass, 
with  the  luminous  surface  of  softly  polished  amber. 
Carved  bone  stand. 

Height,  3%  inches. 

20 —  Rock  Crystal  Perfume  Bottle 

Pear  shape  with  slender  neck  heavily  banded  below  the 
lip,  and  short  spreading  foot.  Brilliant  polish. 

Height,  3y8  inches. 

21 —  Jade  Ornament 

Elliptical  and  hollow,  carved  as  an  archaic  conven¬ 
tional  lotus  flower.  Pierced  with  two  crescents,  two 
circular  apertures  and  a  quadrilateral  one ;  apparently 
a  crowning  element  or  section  of  some  larger  elaborate 
and  complex  ornament.  Translucent  grayish-white 
jade  with  snowflake  texture  and  soft  polish. 

Diameter,  4 ya  inches. 

22 —  Jade  Bowl 

Flaring  in  ovoidal  expansion  from  an  embryonic  foot, 
and  with  a  lightly  everted  rim.  Thin,  translucent 
grayish  jade  with  brownish  and  greenish  veinings  and 
softly  brilliant  polish. 


Diameter,  4y2  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


23 —  Ruby-glass  Cylindrical  Jar 
Transparent  glass  of  ruby  tone  with  soft  lustre. 

Height,  4%  inches. 

24 —  Rock  Crystal  Vase  with  Cover  and  Stand 

Pear  shape  with  full  neck  circled  by  two  ring  mold¬ 
ings,  and  two  ju-i  loop  handles ;  cover  with  recurving 
loop  handle ;  elliptical  stand  on  four  ju-i  feet. 

Height,  5%  inches, 

25 —  Rock  Crystal  Vase  with  Cover  and  Stand 
Flattened  ovoidal  form,  with  low  foot  fitting  into  a 
silver-capped  pedestal  which  rests  on  four  ju-i  feet ; 
inserting  cover  with  undercut  lion  finial. 

Height,  6ys  inches. 


26 — White  Jade  Vase 

Form  of  an  obelisk  standing  on  its  apex,  truncated 
and  supplied  with  a  low  circular  foot,  and  supporting 
a  short  crescent  lip ;  corners  indented,  panelling  the 
sides.  Translucent  white  jade  with  soft  polish.  Open¬ 
work  teakwood  stand  of  rockery,  fungus  and  bamboo. 

Height,  6yg  inches. 


27 — Jade  Incense  Burner  with  Cover 

Quadrilateral,  with  two  upright  loop-handles  and  four 
boldly  carved  dragon-head  feet.  On  each  side  two 
archaic  dragons  in  relief,  above  a  studding  of  bold 
bosses,  and  at  corners  and  the  centres  of  the  sides 
dentated  ridges.  Incised  fret  border  on  rim.  Dense 
greenish-gray  jade  with  soft  polish.  Teakwood  cover 
surmounted  by  a  carved  jadestone  lion. 


Height,  8%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


28 — Pair  Ornamental  Trees  in  Enamel  Jardinieres 
Quatrefoil  jardinieres  of  Pekin  enamel,  with  brilliant 
floral  ornamentation  in  polychrome  on  cerulean  and 
greenish-turquoise  grounds.  Gnarled  trees  of  gilt 
wood,  with  leaves  and  blossoms  of  jade  and  coral. 
Teakwood  stands.  (Trees  repaired.) 

Heights,  22%  and  23%  inches. 


29 — Horn  Netsuke 

Shuttle  or  bobbin  shape,  divided  at  the  centre  and 
circled  by  rings  of  J apanese  silver  to  hold  clasp ;  in 
the  interior  a  trick  animal  innocuous  in  a  dry  land. 

Length,  3  inches. 


30 —  Two  Miniature  Enamel  Cups 

Quatrefoil  with  low  foot.  One  with  floral  scroll  in 
polychrome  on  canary-yellow  ground,  the  other  with 
sages  and  landscape  on  creamy-white  ground. 

31 —  Enamel  Quatrefoil  Tray 

Sides  in  floral  scroll,  bottom  of  interior  with  swastika- 
lattice  in  dark  brown  on  a  3rellowish-green  ground,  en¬ 
closing  a  white  medallion  penciled  with  household  orna¬ 
ments  in  polychrome  and  gold. 

Diameter,  3%  inches. 

32 —  Pair  Pekin  Enamel  Bridal  Bowls 

Inverted  bell  shape.  Exterior  decorated  with  highly 
conventional  lotus  designs  in  polychrome  on  a  bleu- 
de-roi  ground,  and  slmang  hsi  (double  joy)  symbols 
between  them  in  gold ;  interior  with  coral  bats  and  a 
Shou  medallion  on  a  turquoise-blue  ground. 


Diameter,  4%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


33— Gold  Lacquer  Inro 

Four  sections;  plants  growing  outside  a  cottage  win¬ 
dow,  in  black,  red,  silver  and  gold  lacquer. 

Length,  3%  inches. 


34 — Gold  Lacquer  Inro 

Four  sections ;  vines,  grasses  and  butterflies  in  black, 
silver  and  gold  lacquer  on  a  gold  lacquer  ground. 

Length,  3%  inches. 


35 — Black  Lacquer  Inro 

Three  sections ;  herons,  streams  and  water  plants  in 
gold  and  silver  lacquer  on  a  gold-spangled  black  lac¬ 
quer  ground. 

Length,  3 V4  inches. 


36 —  Lacquer  Incense  Box  with  Cover 

Oblong  and  shallow.  Mountain  and  stream  decoration 
in  gold,  silver  and  black  lacquer,  interior  in  nashiji. 

Length,  3  inches. 

37 —  Gold  Lacquer  Powder  Box  with  Cover 
Compressed  globular  form ;  pomegranate  decoration 
in  tangible  relief,  interior  in  nashiji. 

Diameter,  3%  inches. 

38 —  Black  Lacquer  Inlaid  Box  with  Cover 
Quadrilateral  with  corners  rounded.  Floral  and  orna¬ 
mental  inlays  in  mother-of-pearl  and  lacquers,  on 
exterior  and  interior  of  cover;  seal  signature  on  the 
interior. 


Length,  5%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


39 — Cinnabar  Lacquer  Cake-box  with  Cover 

Compressed  globular  form  on  low  foot.  Finely  fluted 
in  conventional  flower-petal  design,  the  overlapping 
petals  carved  with  floral  reliefs  on  an  incised  fret 
ground. 

Diameter,  7  inches. 


40 —  Carved  Lacquer  Tray 

Carved  as  a  wide-spreading  lotus  flower,  resting  upon 
a  bundle  of  stems  and  the  leaves  of  buds  which  spring 
from  them,  in  brown,  red,  green  and  gold. 

Diameter,  9%  inches. 

41 —  -Wood  and  Lacquer  Inlaid  Box  with  Cover 

Oblong,  containing  drawer  and  upper  compartment. 
Cover  inlaid  with  a  hanging  basket  of  beautiful  flowers, 
in  mother-of-pearl,  porcelain  and  other  substances. 
Signature  and  seal  in  interior  of  cover. 

Length,  10%  inches. 

42 —  Lacquer  Writing  Box  with  Cover 

Oblong ;  cover  with  beveled  edge,  which  is  lacquered  in 
gold  with  floral  scrolls  in  delicate  relief.  Cover  and 
sides  in  wave  design  finely  executed  in  brown  and  black. 
Interior  with  nashiji  clouds  on  a  black  ground,  and 
containing  ink-stone  and  water-pourer. 

Length,  10%  inches. 

43 —  Gold  Lacquer  Chariot 

Conventional  form,  the  house  ornamented  with  chrys¬ 
anthemum  sprays  in  relief,  and  mounted  in  silver, 
including  doors  and  shutters,  which  are  engraved  with 
floral  scrolls  including  the  Imperial  crest,  the  sixteen- 
petaled  chrysanthemum.  Cart  similarly  adorned,  and 
also  inlaid. 


Height,  6%  inches;  length,  11%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


44 — Black  Lacquer  Inlaid  Cabinet 

Oblong,  with  six  drawers,  one  containing  ink-stone  and 
water-pourer ;  silver  mounted.  Floral,  bird  and  swim¬ 
ming-fish  decoration  in  red  and  gold  lacquer.  Wild 
geese  and  other  birds  flying,  and  the  long-tailed  bird 
perched  on  a  blossoming  plum  tree,  inlaid  in  mother- 
of-pearl. 

Height,  10>4  inches;  length,  12 14  inches. 


45 — Sunspot  Bronze  Tripod  Incense  Burner 

Low  cauldron  shape  on  squat  legs ;  two  upright 
scrolled-loop  handles.  Reddish-brown  and  olive  pa¬ 
tina.  Fictitious  Hsiian  Te  mark. 

Diameter,  3 y2  inches. 


46 — Antique  Bronze  Incense  Burner  with  Cover 

Globular  with  spreading  foot  and  short  incurvate 
neck ;  two  animalistic  loop  handles.  Around  the  shoul¬ 
der  beaded  cords  in  relief,  from  which  similar  cords 
are  festooned  about  the  body,  pinned  with  jewels  and 
supporting  jeweled  tassels.  Neck  inlaid  with  silver 
fret  border,  and  two  characters  similarly  inlaid  under¬ 
neath  foot.  Soft  brown,  green  and  reddish  patina  of 
unctuous  surface.  Cover  gilt. 

Height,  3ys  inches. 


47 — Bronze  Tripod  Incense  Burner 

Cauldron  shape  with  two  upright  twisted  loop  han¬ 
dles.  Brownish  and  olive-toned  patina.  Hsiian  Te 
seal  mark  (fictitious).  Carved  teakwood  cover  with 
carnelian  finial. 


Diameter,  3%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


48 —  Bronze  Incense  Burner 

Broad  and  shallow  pear  shape  with  low  spreading  foot, 
and  two  side  handles.  “Sunspot”  bronze  with  dark 
olive  and  brown  patina.  Fictitious  mark  of  Hsiian  Te. 
(Probably  of  Japanese  manufacture.)  Tcakwood 
cover  with  imitation  jade  (glass)  finial  carved  as  a 
Buddha’s-hand  citron.  Diameter,  6  inches. 

49 —  Antique  Japanese  Wrought  Iron  Box  with  Cover 

Sixteenth  Century 
Cover  with  a  repousse  design  of  cock  and  hen,  side  by 
side,  ornamented  with  gold  and  silver  inlay  and  lac¬ 
quer.  At  lower  right  corner  an  incised  inscription. 
Interior  of  box  and  cover  in  water-gilt.  Under  bot¬ 
tom,  inscriptions  incised  in  script  and  ideograph. 

Length,  9 yz  inches. 


BLUE  AND  WHITE  PORCELAINS 

50 —  Pair  Blue  and  White  Tea  Jars 
Quadrilateral  with  flat  shoulder  and  short  upright  lip. 
On  the  four  sides  a  depressed  ground  of  mottled  lapis- 
lazuli  blue,  rich  and  brilliant,  interrupted  by  decora¬ 
tions  modeled  in  relief  in  white,  including  figures  of 
Shou-lao  the  god  of  longevity,  his  emblem  the  spotted 
stag,  pine  trees  and  the  sacred  fungus,  also  emblematic 
of  long  life,  bats,  symbols  of  happiness,  and  conven¬ 
tional  clouds.  Teakwood  covers.  Height,  4%  inches. 

51 —  Blue  and  White  Hawthorn  Ginger  Jar 

K'ang-hsi 

Detached  clusters  of  the  wild  prunus  blossoms  reserved 
in  white  in  a  brilliant  lapis-blue  ground  checked  in 
dark  lines  in  representation  of  disintegrating  ice. 

Height,  5 %  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


52 —  Blue  and  White  Cylindrical  Brush-holder 

K'ang-lisi 

Lightly  flaring  at  lip  and  foot.  Decoration,  two  feng- 
huang  on  the  wing  amid  conventional  clouds,  in  bril¬ 
liant  sky-blue.  Teakwood  cover  with  amethystine 
quartz  finial.  Height,  5%  inches. 

53 —  Blue  and  White  Ginger  Jar  Cli'ien-lung 

Around  the  body  a  deep  band  of  conventional  lotus- 
scroll  in  two  tones  of  cobalt-blue  on  a  milk-white 
ground ;  three  varied  borders.  Pierced  teakwood  cover. 

Height,  5%  inches. 

54 —  Blue  and  White  Hawthorn  Ginger  Jar 

Detached  blossom  clusters  of  the  met  in  white  on  a  blue 
ground  heavily  marked  in  dark  lines  in  “cracking-ice” 
pattern,  interrupted  by  three  foliated  medallions  re¬ 
served  and  painted  with  motives  from  the  “hundred 
antiques.”  Height,  7 y4  inch  es. 

55 —  Blue  and  White  Ginger  Jar  Yung  Ctu'ng 

Landscape  decoration  in  rich  blue  varying  in  tone,  on 
a  brilliant  ground  of  creamy-white ;  shoulder  border 
of  vermicular  scroll ;  double-ring  in  blue  at  foot. 

Height,  7%  inches. 

56 —  Blue  and  White  Bowl  K'ang-hsi 

Inverted  bell  shape  on  bold  foot.  Within  a  ground  of 
pulsating  cobalt-blue,  such  as  is  familiar  in  the  “haw¬ 
thorn”  vases  but  without  the  ice  lines,  four-clawed 
dragons  and  the  whirling  jewel  of  omnipotence  amid 
conventional  clouds,  in  white  reserve  and  penciled  in 
pale  blue.  Mark  of  Ch’eng  Hua  (apocryphal).  (Rim 
slightly  nicked.)  Diameter,  7%  inches. 


Afte  moon  Sale 


57—  Blu  e  and  White  Bowl  Yung  Clieng 

Inverted  bell  shape  on  bold  foot.  On  the  exterior  five 
four-clawed  dragons  each  grasping  a  Shou  character, 
in  two  tones  of  blue  on  a  ground  of  fine  and  brilliant 
white ;  another  dragon  at  bottom  of  interior.  Mark,  a 
sprig  of  peaches  within  a  double-ring. 

Diameter,  8%  inches. 

58 —  Blue  and  White  Bowl 

Octofoil,  flaring  from  a  low  foot,  both  sides  and  rim 
gently  undulatory,  and  the  eight  panels  picturing  the 
celebrated  eight  horses  of  the  Chou  Emperor  Mu 
Wang,  which  were  reputed  to  have  traversed  all  the 
roads  of  the  realm ;  done  in  sapphire-blue  and  trans¬ 
parent  wash,  the  horses  being  seen  in  various  land¬ 
scapes.  Mark,  an  incense  burner  within  the  K’ang-hsi 
double-ring. 

Diameter,  8 14  inches. 

59 —  Blue  and  White  Ovoid  Jar 

With  short  lip  slightly  expanding.  Shaded  lapis-blue 
decoration  in  four  foliated  panels  displaying  a  stork, 
dragon  and  two  phoenixes  among  clouds,  besides  de¬ 
tached  scroll  designs  and  two  borders.  Six-character 
Chia  Ching  mark  (fictitious). 

Height,  8%  inches. 

60 —  Two  Blue  and  White  Hawthorn  Ginger  Jars 

K’ang-hsi 

Cobalt-blue  ground  penciled  in  dark  lines  in  the  “crack¬ 
ing-ice”  pattern,  supporting  detached  blossoms  and 
upright  blossoming  branches  of  the  winter-blooming 
wild  prunus  tree  reserved  in  white,  the  ground  further 
interrupted  by  three  polyfoliate  medallions  reserved  in 
white  and  penciled  with  household  ornaments  in  blue. 
Crenellate  borders  at  foot  and  shoulder.  Carved  teak- 
wood  covers,  one  set  with  a  white  jade  carved  disc. 
(Lip  of  shorter  one  repaired.) 

Heights,  8 y2  and  8%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


61 — Blue  and  White  Oviform  Vase  Yung  Cheng 

High,  sloping  shoulder  and  truncate  neck.  Light  but 
resonant  white  paste,  of  the  so-called  “soft  paste” 
type,  clothed  in  a  brilliant  cream-white  glaze  delicately 
crackled  in  self-color  and  cafe-au-lait,  with  an  under¬ 
glaze  decoration  of  a  mountainous  lakeside  landscape 
and  two  sages,  in  rich  and  brilliant  blue. 

Height,  9  inches. 


62— Blue  and  White  Bottle  with  Silver  Cover 

K’ang-hsi 

Pear  shape  with  low  foot.  On  the  body  a  standing- 
figure  facing  a  stork  and  followed  by  attendants  bear¬ 
ing  a  fan  and  a  lute,  and  on  the  shoulder  and  neck 
floral  bands,  in  rich  blue  and  transparent  wash.  Fitted 
with  silver  rim  and  hinged  cover. 

Height,  9%  inches. 


63 — Blue  and  White  Bottle-form  Vase  Cli’ien-lung 
Globular  with  cylindrical  neck.  Decorated  in  deep 
blue  of  two  tones  with  a  huge  three-clawed  dragon 
within  a  conventional  lotus-scroll,  on  a  ground  of  pure 
white.  Seal  mark  of  the  reign. 

Height,  11%  inches. 


64 — Blue  and  White  Cylindrical  Jar  K’ang-hsi 

Sloping  shoulder  and  underbody,  spreading  foot,  and 
short  neck  expanding  to  a  flanged  lip.  The  ornamen¬ 
tal  banana  and  a  vegetable  plant  of  large  leaves  in 
dark  and  light  blue  on  a  creamy-white  ground,  on  the 
body,  on  shoulder  and  underbody  hawthorn  blossoms 
and  cracking  ice  lightly  penciled  in  blue  line,  and  varied 
borders  on  neck,  lip  and  foot.  (Gold  lacquer  repair  at 
lip.) 


Height,  15%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


65 —  Blue  and  White  Temple  Jar  with  its  Own  Origi¬ 

nal  Cover  K’ang-hsi 

Hawthorn  pattern  decoration,  the  branches  of  a  single 
“hawthorn”  ( mei )  tree  in  bloom  completely  encircling 
the  vase,  tree  and  blossoms  reserved  in  white  in  a  bril¬ 
liant  blue  ground  checked  in  black  lines  in  representa¬ 
tion  of  the  disintegrating  ice  of  winter;  two  crenellate 
borders  in  blue ;  on  the  neck  a  ju-i  border  in  white 
reserve.  Cover  in  accord.  Height,  16%  inches. 

66 —  Blue  and  White  Jar 

Oviform  with  wide  neck  and  expanding  lip.  Extensive 
and  varied  landscape  decoration  in  rich  and  brilliant 
sapphire-blue,  with  sages  in  a  pavilion  and  crossing  a 
bridge,  farmers  on  the  road,  one  of  them  riding  a  buf¬ 
falo,  and  two  men  in  a  boat,  the  landscape  finely 
painted  and  the  figures  expressive,  but  the  features  of 
the  faces  not  delineated.  Height,  17%  inches. 

67 —  Blue  and  White  Beaker  K’ang-hsi 

On  the  neck  a  potentate  receiving  a  visitor,  both  seat¬ 
ed,  with  a  male  attendant  and  two  women  of  the 
household  standing.  On  the  foot  a  sage  seated  beside 
a  rock  in  his  garden,  with  attendants  bringing  his  lute 
and  refreshments  and  sprinkling  a  potted  plant.  On 
the  mid-section  displays  of  the  lotus,  peony  and  chrys¬ 
anthemum.  All  in  glowing  sapphire-blue  and  trans¬ 
parent  wash  on  a  brilliant  cream-white  ground.  Six- 
character  mark  of  Ch’eng  Hua  (apocryphal).  (Gold 
lacquer  repair  at  lip.)  Height,  17%  inches. 

68 —  Blue  and  White  Beaker  Cli’ien-lung 

Decoration  a  brilliant  lotus  scroll  highly  conventional¬ 
ized,  in  rich  sapphire-blue  on  a  pure  white  ground ;  five 
borders.  Height,  18  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


69 — Blue  and  White  Beaker  K’ang-hsi 

On  upper  and  lower  sections  sages  and  houses  about 
mountain  lakes,  and  on  the  mid-section  archaic  repre¬ 
sentations  of  the  dragon  and  phoenix,  each  with  the 
sacred  fungus,  all  in  brilliant  blues  on  a  milk-white 
ground.  Mark,  the  blue  double-ring. 

Height,  18  inches. 


70 —  Blue  and  White  Beaker  K’ang-hsi 

Ground  of  floral  lattice,  with  hatch  and  vermiculate 
borders,  enclosing  foliated  reserve  medallions  bril¬ 
liantly  painted  in  sapphire-blue  with  the  eight  Taoist 
immortals.  Mark,  a  blue  double-ring. 

Height,  18 14  inches. 

71 —  Blue  and  White  Bottle-form  Vase  Ch’ien-lung 
Globular  with  low  and  broad  foot  and  tall  and  full 
neck,  both  incurvate.  On  both  body  and  neck  a  broadly 
designed  and  highly  conventional  lotus  scroll,  in  two 
tones  of  blue;  two  fret  borders  on  neck  and  a  con¬ 
ventional  petal  border  on  foot.  Mark,  a  blue  leaf 
with  fillets.  (Late  Ch’ien-lung  copy  or  adaptation  of 
an  early  K’ang-hsi  fabric.) 

Height,  23%  inches. 

72 —  Blue  and  White  Tall  Jar  Ch’ien-lung 

Ovocylindrical  with  sloping  shoulder,  cylindrical  neck, 
and  broad  lip  of  bulbous  expansion.  Vigorously 
painted  decoration,  in  brilliant  blue,  of  tw'o  happy 
beings  under  a  pine  tree,  the  immortal  character  whose 
familiar  was  the  three-legged  toad,  which  rests  on  his 
shoulder,  and  a  brother  carrying  a  vase  of  lotus  flow¬ 
ers  ;  beside  them  rocks  and  the  bush  bamboo.  On  the 
shoulder  bats  among  clouds,  on  neck  and  lip  leaf  and 
ju-i  borders. 


Height,  24%  inches. 


Ifte  moon  Sale 


SINGLE-COLOR  SPECIMENS 

73 —  Globular  Water  Jar  K'ang-lisi 

Clothed  in  a  monochrome  glaze  of  rich  lapis-lazuli  blue 
with  mirror  surface. 

74 —  Cylindrical  Jar  K'ang-lisi 

With  sloping  shoulder  and  underbody,  and  short  lip 
and  foot.  Luminous  glaze  in  the  soft  green  of  the 
young  bamboo,  with  delicate  fishroe  crackle. 

Diameter,  3  inches. 


75 — Quadrilateral  Vase 

The  four  sides  exhibiting  sunken  panels  pierced  in 
floral  and  lattice  designs,  with  a  dense  enamel  glaze  of 
turquoise  type.  Silver  mounted,  with  four  ju-i  feet. 
Bears  a  four-character  mark. 

Height,  3%  inches. 


76 — White  Vase 

After  one  of  the  ancient  bronze  forms,  such  as  were 
greatly  favored  in  porcelains  under  Ch’ien-lung.  Qua¬ 
drilateral,  with  expanded  sides,  on  a  base  with  ju-i 
feet,  the  whole  flattened,  giving  a  diamond-shape  to 
neck  and  foot.  Relief  decoration  of  symbolic  bats  sur¬ 
rounding  Shou  characters,  under  a  moist-seeming 
white  glaze. 

Height,  3%  inches. 


77 — White  Tripod  Incense  Burner  Ming 

Broad  and  shallow  pear  shape,  with  two  side-loop 
handles,  on  stump  feet.  Fuchien  type,  with  a  very 
brilliant  glaze  of  soft  creamy-white,  boldly  crackled  in 
self-color.  Teakwood  cover  with  pierced  jade  medal¬ 
lion. 


Height,  4  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


78 — Quadrilateral  Reticulated  Vase  Ch’ien-ltmg 

Edges  molded  and  the  sides  enclosing  sunken  panels  of 
scrolled  grill-work,  the  whole  within  a  glaze  of  luminous 
white. 

Height,  4  inches. 


79 — Fuchien  Dragon  Bottle  Ming 

Squat  body  with  steeply-sloping  shoulder  and  slender 
neck  expanding  toward  the  lip ;  low  foot.  On  the  neck 
a  lizard-dragon  grasping  a  sprig,  in  relief,  the  whole 
in  a  glaze  of  soft  cream-white. 

Height,  4%  inches. 


80 — Ovoid  Jar  with  Cap  Cover  Kuang  Hsii 

Mirror-glaze  of  camellia-leaf  green  type,  with  fishroe 
crackle  in  fine  dark  lines. 

Height,  4%  inches. 


81 — Tripod  Incense  Burner 

Cauldron  shape  with  two  loop  handles  formed  of  plum 
tree  branches  supporting  pendent  blossoms,  and  mon¬ 
ster-head  feet.  Stoneware  with  a  gray  glaze  of  soft 
lustre,  splashed  and  souffle  with  a  mulberry-red,  in  an 
aspect  sometimes  known  as  “chicken’s-blood”  and  occa¬ 
sionally  seen  in  soapstone  carvings.  Teakwood  cover 
with  fei-ts'ui  jade  finial. 

Height,  414  inches. 


82 — Cucumber-green  Bottle  K'ang-lisi 

Globular  with  low  foot,  slender  tapering  neck  and  ex¬ 
panding  lip.  Monochrome  glaze  of  cucumber-green, 
truitee,  of  soft  lustre. 


Afternoon  Sale 


83 — Writer’s  Water  Jar 

Semiglobular  with  embryonic  lip  and  retired  foot,  re¬ 
sembling  somewhat  the  peachbloom  writer’s  jars,  and 
clothed  as  to  the  exterior  in  a  glaze  of  maroon-red  of 
soft  lustre,  with  crackle,  the  interior  in  gray-white 
with  cafe-au-lait  crackle.  Six-character  Ch’ien-lung 
mark. 

Height,  4  inches. 

81 — Peachbloom  Water  Dish  K’ang-hsi 

Shallow,  compressed  globular  form  with  wide  mouth 
and  low  foot.  Peachbloom  glaze  of  rich  notes,  includ¬ 
ing  ashes-of-rose  tones  and  the  greenish  fleckings.  Six- 
character  mark  of  the  reign.  (Repaired.)  Metal 
lattice-work  cover. 

Diameter,  4%  inches. 

85 — Peachbloom  Jar  Ch’ien-lung 

Globular  with  short  neck  and  slightly  expanding  lip. 
Brilliant  peachbloom  glaze  of  characteristic  tones. 
Six-character  mark  of  Ch’eng  Hua  (apocryphal). 

Height,  5  inches. 


86 —  Incense  Burner 

Shallow  and  broad  pear  shape  body  with  low  foot  and 
flaring  lip,  and  two  animal-head  relief  handles.  Shan¬ 
tung  ware  in  a  luminous  glaze  of  yellowish  iron-rust 
brown  with  metallic  lustre.  Teakwood  cover  with  car- 
nelian  finial. 

Diameter,  4%  inches. 

87—  Double-gourd  Bottle  Ch’ien-lung 

Bright  watermelon-green  glaze  with  metallic  lustre  and 
fishroe  crackle  in  fine  dark  lines. 


Height,  5%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


88 — Green  Crackled  Bowl  K’ang-hsi 

Ovoid,  lightly  flaring  at  the  rim;  on  low  foot.  Dense 
watermelon-green  glaze  with  fishroe  crackle  finely 
marked  in  dark  lines. 

Diameter,  5%  inches. 


89 — Rorin’s-egg  Souffle  Bottle  Ch’ien-lung 

Pear  shape  with  low  spreading  foot  and  slender,  ex¬ 
panding  neck.  Robin’s-egg  souffle  glaze  of  dull  lustre. 

Height,  5%  inches. 


90 — Small  Blue  Amphora  Ch’ien-lung 

Monochrome  glaze  of  rich  bleu-de-roi  with  mirror  prop¬ 
erties. 

Height,  6  inches. 


91 — Green  Crackled  Jar  Kuang  Hsu 

Ovoid  with  short  neck  and  lightly  everted  lip.  Coated 
with  a  softly  lustrous  glaze  of  dark  apple-green  hue 
exhibiting  a  close  mosaic  crackle  in  brownish  lines. 
Lip  and  interior  in  cafe-au-lait  with  crackle  lines  inten¬ 
sified. 

Height,  6  inches. 


92 — Peachbloom  Bowl 

With  recurving  sides  and  low  foot.  Interior  and  ex¬ 
terior  coated  with  a  dark  peachbloom  glaze  deepening 
to  ashes-of-roses  tones  and  marked  by  a  vertical  and 
sporadic  crackle  in  dark  lines.  Six-character  mark  of 
Iv’ang-hsi  within  a  blue  double-ring;  but  a  modem 
production. 


Diameter,  6ya  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


93 — Rose  du  Barry  Vase 

Slender  form,  of  cylindrical  suggestion,  but  with  slight- 
l}r  incurvate  sides  rounding  into  the  high  shoulder, 
which  supports  a  short  neck  with  flaring  lip.  Brilliant 
rose  du  Barry  glaze,  with  edge  and  interior  of  lip 
white.  Mark,  a  double-ring. 

Height,  6%  inches. 


9d — Ikon-rust  Incense  Burner 

Low  and  broad  pear-shape  body  on  bold  foot ;  spread¬ 
ing  and  flattened  lip ;  two  ox-head  handles  in  i*elief. 
Metallic  souffle  glaze  of  steely  note  on  an  iron-rust  red 
ground,  with  soft  lustre.  Teakwood  cover. 

Diameter,  6 14  inches. 


95 —  Reticulated  Quadrilateral  Celadon  Jar 

The  four  sides  reticulated  in  lattice  form,  resting  on 
four  ju-i  feet,  and  enclosing  a  cylinder;  short  neck 
and  broad  floral  lip.  Brilliant  glaze  of  pale  grayish 
celadon-green.  Japanese  Hirado  ware. 

Height,  6%  inches. 

96 —  Lime-green  Vase  Chi'en-lung 
Oviform  with  high  shoulder  and  truncate  neck.  In¬ 
vested  with  a  monochrome  glaze  of  delicate  lime-green, 
of  mirror  surface,  with  a  fishroe  crackle  in  pale  cafe- 
au-lait. 

Height,  6%  inches. 

97 —  Pistache  Bottle  Yung  Cheng 

Pear  shape  with  low  foot  and  slightly  incurvate  neck. 
Dense  porcelain  in  a  delicate  pistache-green  glaze  of 
soft  lustre. 


Height,  6%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


98 —  Apple-green  Bottle  Kuang  Hsii 

Ovoid  with  sloping  shoulder  and  tubular  neck.  Lus¬ 
trous  apple-green  glaze  truitee  in  dark  cafe-au-lait 
lines.  Height,  6%  inches. 

99 —  Broad  Inverted  Bell-shape  Bowl 

Exterior  enameled  with  a  rich  maroon  glaze  of  peau- 
d’ orange  surface  ;  interior  in  white.  Foot  penciled  with 
a  seal  mark.  Diameter ,  7%  inches. 

100 — Crackled  Bottle-form  Vase  Ch’ien-lung 

Ovoid  with  full  and  slightly  tapering  neck.  Dense  and 
heavy  hard-paste  white  porcelain,  invested  with  a 
luminous  glaze  of  soft  lavender-blue  of  clair-de-ltme 
quality,  traversed  by  a  broad  and  bold  crackle  in  self¬ 
color  and  cafe-au-lait.  Height,  7%  inches. 


101 —  Clair-de-lune  Bottle  Ch’ien-lung 

Pear  shape  with  short  slender  neck  and  low  foot.  In¬ 
vested  with  a  monochrome  glaze  of  soft  brilliancy,  in 
delicate  bluish  clair-de-lune  hue.  (Lip  somewhat 

chipped.)  Height,  7%  inches. 

102 —  Crackled  Bottle 

Globular  with  low  foot,  and  slender  neck  slightly  ex¬ 
panding  at  the  lip.  Dense  porcellanous  stoneware 
clothed  in  a  glaze  of  light  greenish-gray  with  an  intri¬ 
cate  cafe-au-lait  crackle.  Height,  7%  inches. 


103 — Splash  Bottle  Chia  Cli’ing 

Spherical  with  low  foot  and  slender  tubular  neck. 
Robin’s-egg  green  glaze  of  soft  lustre,  with  marbled 
polychromatic  splashes.  Height,  73/8  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


101 — Transmutation  Gallipot  with  Silver  Lip 

Body  clothed  with  a  glaze  of  the  transmutation  fur¬ 
nace  exhibiting  trickling  streams  bluish  and  creamy- 
white  over  a  dark  purplish  sang-de-bceuf  ground,  of 
orange-skin  surface  and  lustre.  Neck  in  gray  with 
light  crackle.  Attributed  to  Ming,  but  probably  of 
eighteenth  century  origin.  Height,  8  inches. 

105 —  Clair-de-lune  Bottle  Yung  Clieng 
Pear  shape  with  low  spreading  foot,  slender  neck  and 
bulbous  lip.  Lip  and  underbody  modeled  in  lotus-petal 
form  in  low  relief,  neck  circled  by  a  molded  and  incised 
ring.  Monochrome  glaze  of  faintly  tinted  greenish 
moonlight-white  of  subdued  lustre. 

Height,  8  inches. 

106 —  Bleu-de-ciel  Bottle  Ch'ien-lung 

Low  ovoidal  body  on  a  bold  foot,  with  slender  neck 
very  slightly  incurvate,  and  flaring  lip.  Body  encir¬ 
cled  by  a  light  equatorial  molding  which  is  indented 
by  an  incised  ring;  the  neck  also  encircled  by  lightly 
molded  rings.  Luminous  glaze  of  soft  and  variable 
grayish  sky-blue.  Height,  8%  inches. 

107 —  Blue  Bottle-shape  Vase  K'ang-hsi 

Globular  with  spreading  foot,  and  cylindrical  neck 
with  expanding  lip.  Rich  bleu-de-roi  glaze  slightly 
mottled,  with  a  surface  of  subdued  mirror  properties. 
(Slight  chip  in  lip.)  Height,  8  inches. 

108 —  Lapis-blue  Ovoid  Jar  K’ang-hsi 
With  short  molded  lip.  Enameled  with  a  rich  lapis- 
lazuli  blue  glaze  of  subdued  mirror  brilliancy,  which 
discloses  a  giant  crackle  and  retains  vestigial  marks 
of  an  original  floral  decoration  in  gold. 

Height,  8%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


109 —  Pair  Apple-green  Bottles  Kuang  Hsii 

Globular-ovoidal  body  and  full  neck.  Brilliant  glaze 
of  fine  apple-green  tone,  doubly  crackled,  a  bold 
crackle  in  dark  brownish  lines  embracing  a  minute 
fishroe  crackle  in  a  lighter,  more  delicate  brown.  Un¬ 
derneath  foot  and  within  the  neck,  a  grayish  rice-white 
glaze  with  bold  crackle  in  rich  cafe-au-lait. 

Height,  8  inches. 

110 —  Reticulated  Celadon  Vase 

Barrel-form  with  spreading  and  festooned  lip,  and 
resting  upon  a  circular  base  modeled  as  a  carved  stand, 
the  whole  in  openwork  floral  tracery  with  modeled  and 
incised  details.  Bright  celadon  glaze  of  light  greenish 
tone. 

Height,  8y4  inches. 

111 —  Lapis-blue  Bottle  Cliien-lung 

Ovoid  with  tubular  neck.  Peau-d' orange  glaze  of 

slightly  grayish  lapis-lazuli  blue,  with  misty-mirror 
surface. 

Height,  8%  inches. 

112 —  Lapis-blue  Bottle  Ch’ien-lung 

Spherical,  with  swell  neck  ending  in  a  slender  tube. 
Fine  monochrome  glaze  of  lapis-lazuli  blue,  writh  mir¬ 
ror  surface  and  on  the  body  a  perceptible  sub-surface 
crackle  in  darker  lines. 

Height,  8%  inches. 

113 —  Green  Crackled  Bottle-form  Vase  Tao  Kuang 
Pear  shape  with  low  foot,  short  and  slender  neck  and 
trumpet  lip.  Brilliant  glaze  of  very  light  and  delicate, 
pale  apple-green,  with  fishroe  crackle  and  a  secondary 
widely-spaced  crackle  both  in  fine  dark  lines.  Inner 
lip  in  gray-white  with  cafe-au-lait  crackle. 

Height,  8%  inches. 


If  ter  noon  Sale 


114 —  Ashes-of-roses  Gallipot  Yung  Cheng 
Glazed  in  the  gray  and  purplish-rose  hues  of  ashes-of- 
roses,  with  the  surface  of  a  mist-coated  mirror. 

Height,  8%  inches. 

115 —  Apple-green  Beaker-form  Vase  Cli'ien-lung 

Glaze  of  rich  apple-green  tone  with  brilliantly  irides¬ 
cent  metallic  lustre,  and  a  bold,  firmly  marked  crackle 
in  dark  brownish  lines.  Interior  of  lip  and  neck  in 
grayish-white,  with  the  crackle  continued  in  deep 
cafe-au-lait  lines. 

Height,  8%  inches. 


116 — Apple-green  Gallipot 

Lustrous  glaze  of  apple-green,  with  a  bold  crackle  in 
dark  lines  enclosing  a  fine  fishroe  crackle  delicately 
marked.  Under  foot  and  within  lip,  gray-white  glaze 
with  dark  cafe-au-lait  crackle. 

Height,  9  inches. 


117 — Double-gourd  Bottle-shaped  Vase 

Shoulder  of  lower  section  and  base  of  upper  section 
modeled  with  petal  borders  in  low  relief ;  two  loop- 
scroll  handles  uniting  the  sections  and  resting  upon 
trefoil  drops  on  the  shoulder.  Glaze  of  olive-mustard 
yellow  of  dull  lustre. 

Height,  9%  inches. 


118 — Coral  Bottle 

Ovoid  with  low  foot,  a  bold  molding  or  flange  at  the 
root  of  the  slender  tubular  neck,  and  a  lightly  spread¬ 
ing  lip.  Entire  exterior  invested  with  a  monochrome 
glaze  of  rich  coral-red  of  dull  lustre  and  subdued 
mirror  properties.  Beneath  the  white-glazed  foot  a 
double-ring  in  rich  underglaze-blue. 


Height,  9%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


119 —  Sang-de-bceuf  Gallipot 

Glaze  of  mirror  brilliancy,  with  orange-skin  pittings 
and  discernible  crackle,  displaying  in  rich  quality  the 
tones  of  the  fluent  and  congealing  blood,  with  touches 
of  the  brownish  hardening.  Height,  9%  inches. 

120 —  Rose  Amphora  Ch'ien-lung 
Inverted  pear  shape  with  flaring  foot  and  slender  in- 
curvate  neck.  Bright  glaze  varying  from  red  to 
purple-rose,  with  du  Barry  hints.  Height,  9%  inches. 

121 —  Globular  Bottle-shape  Vase  Yung  Cheng 

Variable  red  glaze  involving  notes  of  the  kindred  fam¬ 
ilies  peachbloom  and  sang-cle-bocuf,  the  hues  ranging 
from  peach-pink  and  crushed-strawberry  to  brownish 
fleckings  of  coagulation  and  areas  of  liver-color,  with 
a  surface  of  delicate  peau-d'  orange  type.  (Small  chip 
at  lip.)  Height,  10%  inches. 

122—  Chrysanthemum  Bottle  in  Peachbloom 

K’ang-hsi 

Spherical  with  slender  and  graceful  slightly  incurvate 
neck.  Body  surface  occupied  by  a  dense  chrysanthe¬ 
mum  scroll  in  peach  pink,  with  minute  green  fleckings, 
three  borders  in  the  same  coloring  appearing  on  the 
neck,  demarcated  by  blue  rings.  Six-character  mark 
of  Ch’eng  Hua  (apocryphal).  (Lip  slightly  chipped.) 

Height,  11%  inches. 

123 —  Peachbloom  Bottle-shape  Vase  Ch'ien-lung 

Spherical  with  deep,  recurving  foot,  and  full  neck  with 
trumpet  lip.  Glaze  of  peachbloom  type  deep  in  tone 
and  but  slightly  varied,  with  a  delicate  variety  of  peau- 
d' orange  surface  and  dull  lustre.  (Glaze  slightly 
chipped  at  lip.)  Height,  11%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


124 —  Sang-de-bieuf  Bottle-shaped  Vase  Ch,ien-lung 
Globular  with  low  and  broad  foot,  and  thick  neck  ex¬ 
panding  at  the  lip  (which  is  copper-capped).  Dense 
glaze  of  dark  sang-de-baeuf ,  with  lighter  areas,  deep 
deckings  and  a  bold  crackle,  and  an  orange-skin  sur¬ 
face. 

Height,  11%  inches. 

125 —  White  Crackled  Jar  Yung  Clieng 

Roughly  cylindrical,  of  irregular,  rumpled  and  incised 
surface,  crudely  representative  of  a  tree-stump  and 
rocks ;  rounded  shoulder  and  short  incurvate  neck,  and 
retired  foot.  Paste  of  Fuchien  type,  clothed  in  a  bril¬ 
liant  cream-white  glaze  crackled  in  self-color  and  cafe- 
au-lait. 

Height,  12  inches. 

126 —  Lapis-blue  Bottle-shape  Vase  Ch'ien-lung 

Ovoid  with  deep  foot,  and  full  neck  with  trumpet  lip. 
Brilliant  glaze  of  deep  lapis-lazuli  blue. 

Height,  12%  inches. 

127 —  Unusual  White  Jar  K’ang-lisi 

Cylindrical,  with  four  dattened  sides  separated  by 
broad  vertical  indentions,  giving  a  quatrefoil  contour ; 
rounded  shoulder  with  embryonic  neck  and  expanding 
lip,  and  retired  circular  foot.  On  each  of  the  sides  a 
quatrefoil  panel  in  relief,  two  of  the  panels  supporting 
lion-head  and  ring  handles  with  tasseled  pendants  of 
bundles  of  scrolls,  in  super-relief,  and  the  other  two 
panels  bearing  long  incised  inscriptions  of  more  than 
dfty  characters  each.  On  the  shoulder  a  scrolled 
border  incised  and  in  relief.  All  beneath  a  brilliant 
and  rich  cream-white  glaze  with  a  vertical  crackle  in 
self-color  and  cafe-au-lait,  clothing  a  dense  and  heavy, 
resonant  porcellanous  stoneware. 


Height,  13  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


128 — Mustard-yellow  Bottle 

Pear  shape  with  tubular  neck,  and  low  and  broad  foot. 
Mustard-yellow  glaze  with  fishroe  crackle  in  fine  dark 
lines  and  a  slight  metallic  lustre. 

Height,  13  inches. 


129 — Mazarin-blue  Bottle-shape  Vase  Cliien-lung 

Globular  with  shaped  foot,  and  wide  neck  slightly 
expanding  at  the  lip  (which  is  copper-rimmed).  Mir¬ 
ror-glaze  of  rich  mazarin-blue. 

Height,  13%  inches. 


130 — Tall  Oviform  Jar  Cliien-lung 

With  broad  convex  foot,  high  shoulder,  and  short  neck 
with  flaring  lip.  Glaze  of  dark  rose  du  Barry  tone 
with  bright  surface  and  a  detectible  crackle. 

Height,  14%  inches. 


131 — Sang-de-bieuf  Vase  Ch’ien-lung 

Oviform  with  flaring  foot,  short  cylindrical  neck  and 
everted  lip.  Glaze  of  sang-de-bccuf  type,  mainly  in  the 
brownish  tones,  with  delicate  orange-skin  surface  and 
of  soft  lustre.  Bears  a  Ch’ien-lung  seal  crudely  pen¬ 
ciled  in  underglaze  blue.  (Slight  repairs  at  lip.) 

Height,  14%  inches. 


132 — Bleu-souffle  Bottle-form  Vase  Yung  Cheng 

Ovoidal  with  broad  equatorial  expansion,  deep,  ex¬ 
panding  foot,  short  and  full  neck  and  trumpet  lip. 
Luminous  bleu-souffle  glaze,  grayish  slate-blue  with 
darker  notes,  suggestive  of  the  powder-blues. 

Height,  15%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


133 — Sang-de-bosuf  Vase 

Oviform  with  flaring  foot  above  an  underfoot,  short 
wide  neck  and  trumpet  lip.  Brilliant  glaze  of  drip¬ 
ping,  fluent  sanq-de-boeuf  red,  boldlv  crackled,  and 
with  much-pitted  surface.  Height,  16%  inches. 

DECORATED  PORCELAINS 

13d — Decorated  Snuff  Bottle  Cilia  Cli’mg 

Oviform,  elongated  and  flattened.  Dragon  and  phoenix 
in  polychrome  relief  on  a  reticulate  white  ground. 

Height,  3  inches. 

135 —  Porcelain  Snuff  Bottle  Cli’ien-lung 

Oviform,  with  ju-i  and  keyfret  foot  and  neck  borders, 
the  surface  between  them  showing  a  dragon  and  phoe¬ 
nix  in  relief  on  a  reticulated  ground  which  stands 
clear  of  the  body  of  the  bottle  within.  Glaze  of  gray¬ 
ish  purple-blue. 

136 —  Decorated  Snuff  Bottle  Chia  Cit  ing 

Flattened  ovoidal  form  with  a  decoration  of  immor¬ 
tals  on  the  sea  modeled  in  relief,  glazed  in  polychrome 
and  touched  with  gold.  (Fictitious  Ch’eng  Hua  mark.) 

137 —  Miniature  Eggshell  Cup  K'ang-hsi 
Ovoid,  with  a  four-clawed  dragon  and  conventional 
cloud  in  green  enamel  touched  with  red  and  white  on  a 
brilliant  white  ground. 

138 —  Small  Cylindrical  Jar  Cliien-lung 
Decorated  in  rose-verte  enamels  on  a  ground  of 
creamy-white,  with  warriors  on  horseback  accompanied 
by  halberdiers  afoot  (who  are  penciled  with  identical 
ideographic  characters)  pursuing  a  horseman  who  has 
plunged  his  steed  into  a  stream.  Teakwood  cover  and 
table-stand. 


Afternoon  Sale 


139 — Eggshell  Cup  K’ang-lisi 

Inverted  bell  shape  with  low  foot.  Underglaze  and 
overglaze  decoration  of  field  grasses  and  flowers  and  a 
blossoming  peach  tree,  delicately  done  in  soft  and  fine 
color  on  a  brilliant  white  ground.  Sealed  inscription 
in  underglaze-blue.  Six-character  mark  of  the  reign. 

110 — Globular  Jar 

Pale  purplish-rose  ground  with  incised  scrolls,  decor¬ 
ated  with  floral  sprays  in  various  enamels. 

Height,  3  inches. 

141 —  Blanc  de  Chine  Cylindrical  Jar 

Body  banded  with  swastika-lattice  in  relief  on  a  sunk¬ 
en  ground,  interrupted  by  relief  medallions  of  figures, 
the  figures  in  oil  gilt  gesso ;  above  and  belowr,  floral 
scroll  borders  pate-sur-pate,  the  ground  brilliant  white. 
Silver-lattice  cover. 

Height,  3  inches. 

142—  Small  Quadrilateral  Vase  Ch’ien-lung 

Sides  swelling  from  a  flat  foot,  and  recurving  in  a 
rounded  shoulder  and  short  expanding  lip.  Two 
animalistic  handles  in  relief.  Reddish-brown  glaze 
with  black,  purplish  and  golden  metallic  lustre  and 
minute  crackle. 

Height,  314  inches. 

143 —  Marbleized  Gallipot 

Splash  glaze  of  light  yellow,  purple-rose,  gray-blue 
and  grass-green  on  a  creamy-white  ground,  in  marbled 
effect. 

Height,  3%  inches. 

144 —  Inverted  Bell-shape  Cup  Ch'ien-lung 

Flower  and  butterfly  decoration  in  enamels  and  over¬ 
glaze-red  on  a  creamy-white  ground. 

Diameter,  3%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


145 — Coral-red  Cur  of  Happiness  Ch’ien-lung 

Semiglobular,  flattened  to  elliptical  form,  with  a  bat, 
symbolizing  happiness,  overspreading  one  end,  its 
wings  curving  down  and  serving  as  feet.  Coral-red 
glaze  penciled  with  lotus  and  ju-i  scrolls  in  gold. 

Diameter,  4  inches. 


146 —  Semi-eggshell  Cup  and  Saucer 

Cup  inverted  bell  shape.  Decoration,  figures  and 
flowers  in  polychrome  enamels  on  white  reserves,  within 
a  gold  ground  with  floral  scroll  reserved  in  white  and 
outlined  in  red. 

Diameter  of  saucer,  4  inches. 

147 —  Blue  Decorated  Bottle  Cliien-lung 

Inverted  pear  shape  with  slender  neck  and  flanged  lip, 
and  two  animal-head  relief  handles,  pierced.  Glaze  of 
deep  starch-blue,  over  a  floral  decoration  lightly  in¬ 
cised  and  appearing  in  darker  lines. 

Height,  4  inches. 


148 —  Pair  Bell-shape  Bowls  with  Covers 
Conventional  lotus  decoration  in  colors  of  the  verte- 
rose  family,  between  composite  scroll  borders  in  under¬ 
glaze-blue. 

Diameter,  4%  inches. 

149 —  Pair  Dragon  Bowls  with  Covers  Ch’ien-lung 

Inverted  bell  shape,  the  porcelain  delicate  and  of 
musical  note.  Brilliant  glaze  of  pale  yellow  with 
metallic  lustre;  exterior  decorated  with  emerald-green 
dragons  pursuing  the  coveted  jewel,  interior  with  a 
Shou  medallion  in  green.  Apocryphal  mark  of 
Hsiian  Te.  (One  cover  repaired.) 


Diameter,  4%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


150 —  Decorated  Cup  and  Saucer 

Cup  inverted  bell  shape.  Both  decorated  in  famille- 
rose  enamels  with  the  fruits  of  the  three  abundances, 
in  white  reserves  within  a  cobalt-blue  ground  penciled 
with  golden  scrolls. 

Diameter  of  saucer,  4%  inches. 

151 —  Pair  Bowls  with  Covers  Ch'ien-lung 

Ovoidal,  very  slightly  flaring  at  the  rim.  Decoration, 
wishes  for  the  “three  abundances” — years,  sons  and 
happiness — expressed  through  the  emblematic  peach, 
pomegranate  and  Buddha’s-hand  citron,  which  appear 
in  fruit  and  flower  in  famille-rose  enamels  on  a  pale 
robin’s-egg  ground.  Seal  mark. 

Diameter,  4%  inches. 

152 —  Dragon  Jar  Ming 

Squat  beaker  form.  Exterior  glazed  in  a  soft  and 
mottled  yellow,  interrupted  by  an  incised  decoration 
of  five-clawed  dragons  pursuing  the  sacred  jewel 
among  clouds,  above  a  conventional  border,  all  appear¬ 
ing  in  a  soft  and  light  green.  Mark,  Cheng  Te  nien 
chih,  in  underglaze  blue  within  a  double  ring. 

Height,  4%  inches. 

153 —  Pair  Decorated  Bowls  with  Covers  Ch'ien-lung 
Delicate,  musical  white  porcelain  with  a  glaze  of  soft 
wrhite,  the  bowls  adorned  with  brilliantly  appareled 
equestrian  figures  and  the  covers  with  a  dignitary 
waiting  to  receive  them,  within  a  wall  before  a  gate  of 
which  an  attendant  is  sweeping  the  way  clear,  all  in 
polychrome  enamels.  On  both  bowls  and  covers  long 
poetical  writings  finely  penciled  in  black.  Seal  mark 
in  underglaze  blue. 


Diameter,  4 1/2  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


154 —  Rose  du  Barry  Bowl  Cldien-lung 
Ovoid  with  low  spreading  foot.  Exterior  in  a  rose 
du  Barry  glaze  of  light  tone  and  delicate  peau- 
d’ orange  surface;  interior  in  white  with  iris  decoration 
in  enamel  colors.  Foot  penciled  with  four  characters 
in  blue. 

Diameter,  4%  inches. 

155 —  Cylindrical  Bowl  Ch’ien-lung 
Underbody  rounding  in  to  a  low  foot.  Canary-yellow 
ground  with  rich  floral  decoration  in  famille-rose 
enamels,  and  enclosing  three  leaf-medallions  reserved  in 
white  and  penciled  with  swimming  fishes  among  water- 
plants.  Teakwood  cover  with  coral  finial. 

Diameter,  4%  inches. 

156 —  Decorated  Ovoid  Jar  Tao  Kuang 

Detached  sprays  of  various  flowers  and  fruits  in 
famille-rose  enamels  on  a  ground  of  soft  white.  Petal 
and  ju-i  borders. 

Height,  5 ys  inches. 

157 —  Pair  Five-color  Bottles  Cliien-lung 
Globular  with  slender  neck.  Kylins,  blossoms  and 
Buddhistic  emblems,  in  aubergine,  yellow,  red  and 
white,  on  a  green  ground  vermicide,  representing  the 
sea. 

Height,  5i/2  inches. 

158 —  Famille-verte  Pi-t’ung  K'ang-hsi 
Decoration,  a  sage  accompanied  by  two  attendants 
and  a  spotted  doe,  in  a  garden,  in  delicate  enamels  of 
the  famille-verte  and  rouge-de-fer.  Pierced  teakwood 
cover. 

Height,  5%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


159 —  Pair  of  Bowls  with  Inscription  Tao  Kuang 

Flaring  bell  shape  with  low  foot.  Decoration  sheep 
in  a  landscape  of  blossoming  flowers  and  trees,  in  poly¬ 
chrome  enamels  on  a  lustrous  white  ground,  the  por¬ 
celain  of  clear,  ringing  note.  Identical  inscriptions 
penciled  in  black  with  three  red  seals.  Under  foot, 
seal  of  the  reign  in  underglaze-blue.  Diameter,  5%  inches. 

160—  Four-color  Ginger  Jar  Ming 

Ovoid.  Phoenix-and-peony  decoration,  and  lotus 
border,  in  deep  rouge-de-fer,  and  green  and  yellow 
enamel,  on  a  ground  of  soft  white.  Teakwood  cover 
surmounted  by  a  rodent  on  a  clam-shell.  (Small  gold 
lacquer  repair  at  base.)  Height,  5%  inches. 

161 —  Pottery  Jar  Ming 

Globular  with  flat  foot  and  short  lip.  Glaze  a  rich 
swamp-green  of  dull  lustre,  closely  crackled.  Pierced 
teakwood  cover.  Height,  5%  inches. 

162 —  Inverted  Bell-shape  Bowl  Yung  Cheng 

Ornamented  with  motives  from  the  Hundred  Antiques, 
in  polychrome  enamels  on  a  ground  of  soft  white. 
Square  seal  mark  of  two  characters  within  a  double¬ 
ring,  all  in  underglaze  blue.  (Gold  lacquer  repair.) 

Diameter,  6  inches. 

163 —  Famille-verte  Bowl  K'ang-hsi 
Ovoid  with  low  foot.  Delicate,  sonorous  porcelain, 
with  a  luminous  soft  white  glaze,  decorated  in  famille- 
verte  enamels  with  longevity  symbols,  the  peach  of 
immortality  and  the  sacred  fungus  involved  in  a  finely 
executed  scroll  and  the  fruit  bearing  various  Shou 
characters.  Mark:  Ta  Ch'ing  K'ang-hsi  nien  chili. 

Diameter,  6%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


164 — Ting-yao  Bottle-shape  Vase  K’ang-hsi 

Ovoid  on  low  foot,  with  slender  neck  and  trumpet  lip. 
Delicate,  resonant  white  porcelain,  with  brilliant  white 
glaze  over  a  rumpled  surface  and  rock  peony  decora¬ 
tion  in  low  relief. 

Height,  6y4  inches. 


165 — Circular  Dish  K’ang-hsi 

Ovoid  on  low  foot.  Light  and  delicate  translucent 
white  porcelain,  with  exterior  and  interior  decoration 
of  waves  in  green  enamel  and  underglaze-blue,  and  in 
addition  on  the  interior  a  dragon  and  four  fishes  in 
rouge-de-fer,  on  a  white  ground.  Mark  of  Ch’eng  Hua 
(apocryphal).  (Slight  repair  at  rim.) 

Diameter,  6 y4  inches. 


166 — Decorated  Ovoid  Jar 

Glazed  in  a  delicate  bluish-green,  interrupted  by  three 
circular  reserves  of  grayish-white,  which  are  penciled 
with  Shou  medallions  in  rouge-de-fer  of  the  tone  of 
the  Mings.  Giant  crackle  in  fine  dark  lines,  with  an 
inter-space  crackle  of  delicate  fishroe  type,  the  larger 
crackle  alone  continuing  across  the  white  reserves. 

Height,  6 y2  inches. 


167— Decorated  Bottle  Ch’ien-lung 

Pear  shape  with  slender,  slightly  tapering  neck,  and 
low  foot.  Luminous  glaze  of  pure  soft  white,  decorated 
with  a  pair  of  peacocks,  rocks,  bamboos  and  blossom¬ 
ing  plum  trees  penciled  in  enamel  colors.  Seal  mark. 


Height,  6%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


168 —  Perfume  Sprinkler  K’ang-lisi 

Globular  with  bell  foot  and  tapering  neck.  Glazed  in 
soft  brown  from  iron  peroxide,  of  delicate  mirror  sur¬ 
face,  this  ground  interrupted  by  six  leaf  medallions 
reserved  in  white  and  painted  in  pale  cobalt-blue  with 
blossom  sprays. 

Height,  6%  inches. 

169 —  Ting-yao  Bottle  K’ang-lisi 
Globular  on  low  foot,  supporting  a  neck  in  form  of  a 
slender  low-bodied  pear-shaped  vase,  the  lip  lightly 
flaring.  On  the  neck  a  four-clawed  dragon  among 
clouds,  pdte-sur-pate,  the  whole  under  a  softly  bril¬ 
liant  glaze  of  creamy-white. 

Height,  6%  inches. 

170 —  Ovoid  Jar  Ch’ien-lung 
Mustard-yellow  ground  minutely  truitee,  traversed  by 
a  composite  floral  scroll  in  polychrome  with  a  pre¬ 
ponderance  of  purple-rose.  Petal,  ju-i  and  flower- 
spray  borders.  Seal  mark  of  the  reign. 

Height,  7  inches. 


171 —  Slender  Cylindrical  Jar 

With  short  neck  and  lightly  spreading  lip.  Decorated 
with  a  highly  conventionalized  lotus  scroll  in  green, 
white,  robin’s-egg  blue  and  dull  aubergine  enamels,  on 
a  yellow  ground. 

Height,  7  inches. 

172 —  Decorated  Bowl  Ch’ien-lung 

With  recurving  sides  and  low  foot.  Exterior  in  a 
light  lime-green  enamel  of  unctuous  surface  and  in¬ 
cised  with  tendril  scrolls,  supporting  a  rich  floral 
ornamentation  and  a  bird  perched  on  a  branch,  in 
polychrome.  Ch’ien-lung  seal  mark. 


Diameter,  7  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


173 — Polychrome  Hawthorn  Jar  K’ang-hsi 

Inverted  pear  shape  with  short  neck  slightly  con¬ 
tracting.  Green  enamel  glaze  checked  in  black  lines 
in  cracking-ice  pattern,  with  conventional  clusters  of 
the  wild  prunus  blossoms  reserved  in  white,  touched 
with  underglaze  rouge-de-fer  and  enameled  in  pale 
yellow.  Teakwood  hat-shaped  cover.  (Repaired  at 
neck.)  Height,  7%  inches. 


171 — Eggshell  Lamp-shade  Ch’ien-lung 

Globular,  with  cylindrical  base  and  short  contracting 
lip.  Delicate  translucent  semi-eggshell  porcelain,  the 
body  stippled  in  red  and  adorned  with  lotus-flower 
scrolls  in  polychrome  enamels  and  rouge-de-fer ,  this 
ground  interrupted  by  scrolled  reserves  of  brilliant 
white,  penciled  with  hydrangeas,  peonies,  chrysanthe¬ 
mums  and  butterflies.  Five  borders.  (  Slight  shoulder- 
crack  filled  in  with  gold  enamel.)  Height,  7y4  inches. 


175 —  Springtime  Vase  Cliien-lung 

Oviform  with  high,  sloping  shoulder  and  truncate  neck. 
Thin  and  delicate  white  porcelain,  resonant,  and 
clothed  with  a  luminous  glaze  of  soft  creamy  white. 
F amille-rose  decoration  of  two  pensive  young  ladies 
each  with  a  fan,  pausing  in  a  leisurely  garden  stroll 
to  regard  a  pair  of  rabbits ;  flowers  in  blossom  about 
them.  (Slight  gold  lacquer  repair  at  lip.) 

Height,  7%  inches. 

176 —  Famille-verte  Vase  K’ang-hsi 

Inverted  pear  shape  with  short  neck  slightly  con¬ 
tracting.  Famille-verte  decoration  of  butterflies, 
chrysanthemums,  and  a  bird  perched  on  a  bamboo  tree, 
Teakwood  hat-shaped  cover.  Height,  7%  inches 


Afternoon  Sale 


177 — Quadrilateral  Bottle-form  Vase  Ming 

Pear  shape  with  spreading  foot,  and  two  lion-mask  and 
ring  handles  in  relief.  Aubergine  ground  of  brilliantly 
iridescent  metallic  lustre,  with  plum  and  chrysanthe¬ 
mum  decoration  incised  and  enameled  in  green  and 
white.  Cheng  Te  seal  mark  incised  beneath  glaze. 

Height,  7y2  inches. 


178 — Varicolored  Bowl 

Inverted  bell  shape  with  festooned  rim  and  bold  foot. 
Exterior  paneled  with  a  variety  of  patterns  in  under¬ 
glaze  and  overglaze  colors  and  gold,  a  deep  coral-red 
predominating;  interior  given  to  landscapes  in  blue 
and  white. 

Diameter ,  7%  inches. 


179 — Green  and  Black  Vase  Ch'ieu-lung 

Inverted  pear  shape  with  trumpet  neck.  Myrtle-green 
glaze  of  subdued  mirror-surface,  minutely  crackled, 
and  an  underglaze  peony  decoration  and  three  borders, 
in  black  line.  Lower  border  and  shoulder  show  model¬ 
ing  in  the  paste. 

Height,  7%  inches. 


180 — Eggshell  Decorated  Bottle 

Ovoid,  on  low  spreading  foot,  with  flattened  shoulder, 
tubular  neck  and  lightly  everted  lip,  the  neck  encircled 
bv  a  light  molding.  Delicate  semi-eggshell  white  por¬ 
celain,  clothed  in  a  mirror-glaze  of  soft  white  and 
decorated  in  underglaze  copper-red  with  the  presenta¬ 
tion  of  an  imperial  infant  before  Shou-lao,  who  holds 
on  his  extended  hand  a  peach  of  longevity.  Six-char¬ 
acter  mark  of  K’ang-hsi. 


Height,  7%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


181 — Decorated  Bottle  Cliien-lung 

Ovoid  with  slender  neck  and  bulbous  lip,  and  spreading 
foot.  Decorated  with  a  Fu-lion,  four  cubs  and  the 
brocaded  ball,  finely  etched  in  black  and  coral-pink 
on  a  ground  of  pure  soft  white ;  on  the  foot  floral 
sprays  in  similar  coloring,  and  about  the  neck  brocade 
bands  in  delicate  polychrome  enamels. 

Height,  7%  inches. 


182 — Famille-verte  Spill  Vase  K’ang-hsi 

Cylindrical  with  lightly  spreading  lip  and  retired  foot. 
The  rock  peony  and  other  flora  in  rouge-de-fer  and 
famille-verte  enamel  colors. 

Height,  7%  inches. 


183 — Enameled  Gallipot  Chia  Cliing 

Underglaze  and  overglaze  decoration  of  blue  rings  and 
a  blue  petal  border,  red  fret  border,  and  a  deep  band 
of  pendent  leaf-forms  on  the  shoulder  in  green  and 
yellow  and  blue  and  red.  Six-character  mark  of 
Ch’eng  Hua  (apocryphal). 

Height,  7%  inches. 


184 — Pair  Presentation  Bowls  with  Covers 

Yung  Cheng 

Sides  recurving  and  flaring  from  a  bold  foot ;  covers 
broad  bell  shape  with  cylindrical  handle.  All  rims 
indicated  as  hexafoil  by  small  incisions.  Decoration, 
imperial  dragons  and  the  omnipotent  jewel  among 
clouds  above  the  sea,  executed  in  rouge-de-fer  and  two 
tones  of  underglaze  blue,  and  polychrome  enamels.  On 
each  piece  the  six-character  mark  of  the  reign  within 
a  blue  double-ring. 


Diameter,  7y8  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


185 — Powder-blue  Decorated  Bottle  Yung  Cheng 

Pear  shape  with  spreading  foot,  slender  neck  with 
bulbous  expansion  and  lightly  expanding  lip.  Powder- 
blue  glaze  of  deep  tone,  with  foliate  medallions  reserved 
in  white  and  penciled  in  blue  line  with  ornaments  and 
emblems. 

Height,  8  inches. 


186 — Double  Vase  Chia  Ch’ing 

“Full-moon”  twin  bodies  on  quadrilateral  feet,  in  joint 
modeling,  with  individual  tubular  necks.  Decorated  in 
famille-rose  enamels,  on  one  face  with  two  young  ladies 
greeting  two  men  at  the  entrance  to  a  garden  pavilion, 
and  the  fabulous  hare  pounding  out  the  elixir  of  life 
in  a  mortar,  and  on  the  other  with  immortals  borne 
upon  clouds,  and  a  standing  rooster. 

Height,  8  inches. 


187 — Pair  Quadrilateral  Vases  Ming 

Body  square,  contracting  to  a  spreading  pedestal  base, 
with  sloping  shoulder  supporting  a  square  neck  to 
which  is  attached  a  silver  lip.  Underglaze  and  over¬ 
glaze  decoration  in  polychrome  touched  with  gold,  em¬ 
bracing  landscapes,  birds,  animals,  flowers  and  orna¬ 
ments. 

Height,  8  inches. 


188 — Famille-rose  Gallipot  Ch'ien-lung 

Body  in  purple-rose  enamel  with  polychrome  decora¬ 
tion  of  conventional  lotus  scroll  and  the  eight  Bud¬ 
dhistic  emblems  of  happy  augury,  between  petal  and 
ju-i  borders;  three  additional  neck  borders.  Seal 
mark. 


Height,  8  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


189 — Purple-rose  Bottle  Ch’ien-lung 

Pear  shape  with  low  spreading  foot  and  tubular  neck. 
Monochrome  glaze  of  pale  purplish-rose  with  peau- 
d’orange  surface  and  soft  lustre. 

Height,  8ys  inches. 


190 — Decorated  Green  Ginger  Jar  Cilia  Ch’ing 

Glazed  in  pale  yellowish-green  of  dull  lustre,  with  leaf¬ 
shaped  panels  reserved  in  white  and  painted  in  cobalt- 
blue  with  mountainous  landscapes.  Pierced  teakwood 
cover. 

Height,  8 y4  inches. 


191 — Latticed  Bowl  T’ung  Chili 

Large  inverted  bell  shape  with  low  foot.  Exterior  pen¬ 
ciled  with  a  swastika-lattice  in  rose  enamel,  over  which 
imperial  dragons  in  blue,  green  and  black,  pursue  the 
whirling  jewel  in  turquoise ;  red  ju-i  border  and  blue 
pellet  border  on  canary-yellow.  Mark :  Ta  Cli’ing 
T’ung  Cliih  nien  chill  (T’ung  Chih,  predecessor  of 
Kuang  Hsii). 

Diameter,  8%  inches. 


192 — Pair  Cylindrical  Jars  K’ang-hsi 

Decoration  in  brilliant  rouge-de-fer  and  dull  enamels 
on  a  milk-white  ground,  picturing  a  sturdy  figure  in 
voluminous  robes  who  has  dismounted  from  his  steed 
and  stands  looking  upward  and  holding  up  a  scroll  in 
an  attitude  of  offering  or  of  petition.  In  one  he  is 
looking  at  a  bat  overhead,  in  the  other  into  space,  and 
a  small  seal  beside  him  bears  two  characters  common 
on  the  two  jars,  the  third  character  varying.  Teak- 
wood  cap-covers  incised  with  concentric  rings. 


Height,  8%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


193 —  Incised  Gallipot  Ch’ien-lung 

Five  imperial  dragons  and  the  omnipotent  jewel, 
among  conventional  clouds,  all  finely  incised  beneath 
a  thin,  transparent  glaze  of  pale  yellow  with  softly 
luminous  surface.  Ch’ien-lung  seal  mark  penciled  in 
dark  brown  glaze. 

Height,  8%  inches. 

194 —  Basket-work  Bottle  Ch’ien-lung 
Globular  with  full  neck.  Basketry  surface,  with  petal, 
fret  and  plantain-leaf  borders,  clothed  in  a  glaze  of 
vermilion  lacquer  hue  with  dull  lustre  and  embellished 
with  four  Sliou  medallions  in  gold.  (Neck  repaired 
with  gold  lacquer.) 

Height,  9  inches. 

195 —  Ovoid  Jar  Ming 
With  bold  foot,  and  short  neck  with  lightly  molded 
lip.  Five-color  decoration,  in  underglaze  and  over¬ 
glaze,  representing  the  dragon-horse,  blossoms  and 
emblems,  on  a  whirlpool  sea,  amid  rocks.  Shoulder- 
border  of  floral  sprays. 

Height,  9%  inches. 

196 —  Blue  Decorated  Vase  Yung  Cheng 

Oviform  with  high  shoulder,  short  full  neck  and  ex¬ 
panding  lip.  Brilliant  glaze  of  slate-blue,  with  under¬ 
glaze  decoration  of  deeper  note  picturing  a  lady  in  a 
garden  and  bats  fl\'ing  overhead.  Has  a  Yung  Cheng 
seal  mark  in  underglaze-blue. 

Height,  9 y2  inches. 

197 —  Unusual  Hawthorn  Amphora 

Enameled  with  a  mottled  ground  of  black  and  dark 
green,  overspread  by  rambling  wild  prunus  trees  in 
full  blossom  in  white.  (Neck  repaired.) 

Height,  91/,  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


198 — Decorated  Pilgrim-bottle  Vase  Ch’ien-lung 

Incurvate  neck,  dragon-scroll  loop  handles  and  low 
spreading  foot.  Light  canary-yellow  glaze,  with  flower 
and  fungus  scrolls  reserved  and  glazed  in  two  tones  of 
blue,  and  on  obverse  and  reverse  peach-medallions  in 
relief  in  the  yellow  ground  and  decorated  with  branches 
of  peaches  and  flaying  bats,  in  the  same  treatment  as 
the  scrolls.  Seal  mark  of  the  reign.  ( Slight  chip  at 
tip.) 

Height,  9%  inches. 


199 — Tripod  Incense  Burner  Yung  Clieng 

Circular,  ovoid  and  shallow,  with  monster-head  handles 
in  high  relief,  and  heavy  scrolled  and  tooled  feet.  Rich 
glaze  of  lapis-blue  with  mazarin-blue  trend  and  olea¬ 
ginous  surface.  Teakwood  cover  with  amber  finial. 

Diameter  ( with  handles),  9%  inches 


200 — Pair  Enameled  Vases  Cli’ien-lung 

Inverted  pear  shape  with  spreading  foot  and  con¬ 
tracting  truncate  neck.  Rich  decoration  in  conven¬ 
tional  lotus  motive,  with  ju-i  and  petal-design  borders, 
in  famille-rose  enamels  on  a  delicate  robin’s-egg  enamel 
ground. 

Height,  9%  inches. 


201 — Cylindrical  Club-shaped  Vase  K’ang-lisi 

Famille-verte  decoration  of  birds  and  butterflies,  and 
two  young  ladies  and  two  boys  in  a  garden,  under  a 
weeping-willow  tree  at  the  border  of  a  lotus  pond. 
(Metal-capped  lip.) 


Height,  10%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


202 —  Wu  Ts’ai  Jar  Ming 

Inverted  pear  shape  with  short  wide  neck  and  molded 
lip.  On  the  body,  pendants  of  symbols  and  ornaments, 
butterflies,  and  four  circular  medallions  divided  into 
nine  compartments  each,  the  central  space  a  square 
enclosing  a  carp  springing  from  the  waves,  or  a  kvlin. 
Peony,  chrysanthemum,  and  conventional-petal  bor¬ 
ders.  All  in  underglaze  lapis-blue  and  dense  rouge- 
de-fer,  and  green,  yellow  and  aubergine  enamels,  on  a 
white  ground.  Height,  10%  inches. 

203 —  Black  Hawthorn  Jar  K’ang-hsi 

Inverted  pear  shape  with  short  upright  lip.  Rich 
black  enamel  glaze  of  iridescent  metallic  lustre,  inter¬ 
rupted  by  mei  (“hawthorn”)  trees  in  bloom,  their 
trunks  glazed  in  aubergine  and  the  blossoms  in  white 
and  pale  yellowr,  while  the  bush  bamboo  in  green  grows 
amongst  green  rocks  at  their  feet.  (Lower  section  of 
a  beaker,  ground  down.)  Mark,  a  blue  double-ring. 

Height,  10%  inches. 

204 —  Black  and  Green  Amphora  Ch'ien-lung 

On  the  entire  exterior  a  deep  black  ground  of  dull, 
soft  lustre,  with  decoration  reserved  in  a  soft,  pale 
green,  its  principal  motive  a  highly  conventional  lotus 
scroll,  with  four  formal  borders.  Mark,  a  blue  double- 
ring'-  Height,  11%  inches. 

205 —  Altar  Garniture  of  Five  Pieces  Chia  Citing 

All  rectilinear:  incense  burner  on  four  feet,  with  two 
detachable  upspringing  handles ;  pair  beaker-shaped 
vases ;  pair  incense  holders  with  midbody  tray. 
Decoration  conventional  floral  forms  in  polychrome 
enamels,  and  on  the  incense  burner  also  animalistic 
medallions  and  a  rolling  sea.  (Tray  of  one  incense 
holder  repaired.)  Heights,  8%  to  9%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


206 — Decorated  Bottle-form  Vase  Ch'ien-lung 

Globular  with  cylindrical  neck,  two  dragon-scroll 
handles  and  spreading  foot.  On  a  luminous  ground  of 
soft  white,  Taoist  immortals,  bats  and  a  constellation 
in  delicate  polychrome  and  gold.  Seal  mark. 

Height,  liy2  inches. 


207 — Tall  Hexagonal  Vase  Ch'ien-lung 

Inverted  pear  shape,  the  body  high,  with  long,  flowing 
foot;  short  neck.  Underglaze  and  overglaze  decora¬ 
tion  in  polychrome  and  gold,  presenting  garden  shrub¬ 
bery  in  blossom  beneath  a  weeping-willow  tree. 

Height,  11%  inches. 


208 — Rose-enamel  Bottle  Yung  Clieng 

Pear  shape  with  short  neck  and  trumpet  lip,  and 
spreading  foot.  White  glaze  of  soft  lustre,  with  a 
heavily  painted  decoration  of  two  imperial  dragons 
and  the  jewel  of  power  among  clouds,  above  a  heaving 
sea,  in  purplish-rose  enamel  of  two  tones.  (Foot 
repaired.) 

Height,  11%  inches. 


209 — Decorated  Hexagonal  Vase  Cilia  Ch'ing 

Expanding  from  a  pedestal-base  to  an  abrupt  shoulder, 
with  crescent  neck  and  flaring  lip.  Figure  decoration 
of  eighteen  figures,  men,  women  and  children,  in 
domestic  scenes  in  and  out  of  doors,  in  polychrome 
enamels  and  gold  on  a  white  ground. 


Height.,  11%  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


210 —  Pair  Baluster  Vases  with  Original  Covers 

K’ang-hsi 

Body  in  large  spiral  fluting,  with  lotus  borders  modeled 
in  the  paste  on  shoulder  and  at  base  of  underbody,  and 
also  on  neck  and  at  the  top  of  the  spreading  foot. 
Bell-shaped  covers  similarly  modeled  in  lotus  form, 
festooned  and  with  lotus  finial.  The  whole  in  under¬ 
glaze  blue  and  vermilion  and  green,  yellow  and  auber¬ 
gine  enamels.  Height,  12%  inches. 

211 —  Wu  Ts’ai  Jar  Ming 

Inverted  pear  shape,  its  wide  and  short  neck  slightly 
incurvate  and  ending  in  a  lightly  molded  lip.  Rich 
and  vigorously  executed  wu  ts’ai  decoration,  the  im¬ 
perial  emblems,  the  supernatural  lung  and  feng-liuang, 
appearing  two  each  amid  conventional  cloud-forms, 
the  intervening  spaces  blazing  with  the  flames  of  the 
dragons’  breath;  ground,  a  fine,  soft  white.  (Gold 
lacquer  repair  at  neck.)  Height,  12%  inches. 

212 —  Pilgrim-bottle  Vase  Tao  Kuang 

With  cylindrical  neck  and  dragon-scroll  handles,  and 
spreading  foot.  Lotus  scroll  and  emblematic  bats 
highly  conventionalized,  in  polychrome  with  a  pre¬ 
ponderance  of  bluish-green,  on  a  brilliant  white 
ground.  Height,  13%  inches. 

213 —  Temple  Jar  in  Polychrome  Yung  Cheng 

Enameled  ground  of  soft,  purplish  old-rose  with  a 
delicate,  infinitesimal  crackle,  adorned  in  enamels  of 
the  rose-verte  family  with  expansive  peony  flowers  amid 
leaves  and  scrolls ;  two  large  medallions  reserved  in 
white  and  painted  with  dragons  grasping  the  fabulous 
jewel,  and  two  small  ones  penciled  with  lakeshore  land¬ 
scapes.  Teakwood  cover.  Height,  14  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


214 — Pearl-gray  Bottle-shape  Vase  Ch'ien-lung 

Spherical  with  bold  foot,  full  neck  and  trumpet  lip 
and  pierced  dragon-scroll  handles.  Ingeniously  de¬ 
signed  and  highly  conventional,  elaborately  worked 
ornamentation,  in  which  the  eight  Buddhistic  emblems 
of  happy  augury  together  with  the  symbolic  bat 
motive  are  involved  with  foliar  scrolls  in  two  large 
medallions  on  the  body  and  two  pendants  on  the  neck, 
all  the  designs  being  incised  broadly  and  glazed  in 
rich  lapis-blue,  and  then  delicately  outlined  in  white 
slip,  within  a  luminous  ground  of  soft  pearl-gray. 
Detached  ornamentation  similarly  executed.  Seal  mark 
of  the  reign  in  underglaze-blue. 

Height,  14 14  inches. 


215 — Coral-red  Decorated  Vase 

Ovoid  with  contracted  underbody  and  convex  foot, 
broad  and  tapering  neck  and  flaring  lip.  Glazed  in 
deep  coral-red  of  dull  lustre,  interrupted  by  a  leaf 
medallion  and  a  scroll  reserved  in  white  and  painted 
with  flowers  in  famille-rose  enamels.  Further  poly¬ 
chrome  enamel  decoration  on  neck. 

Height,  15y3  inches. 


216— Famille-verte  Decorated  Vase  K’ang-hsi 

Ovocylindrical  with  narrow  shoulder  and  wide  in- 
curvate  neck.  Decoration  an  interesting  domestic 
scene,  presenting  five  ladies  emerging  from  a  garden 
pavilion  and  three  immortals  borne  upon  clouds 
approaching,  in  famille-verte  enamels  and  under¬ 
glaze  blue,  of  two  shades,  with  deep  vermilion. 


Height,  16  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


217 —  Famille-rose  Vase  Yung  Cheng 

Body  expanding  slightly  from  foot  to  a  high  shoulder 
which  supports  a  capstan-shaped  neck.  Rich  and 
brilliant  decoration  in  the  enamel  colors  of  the  famille- 
rose  on  a  ground  of  creamy-white.  On  the  body  a 
phoenix  and  a  pair  of  storks  perched  on  rocks,  at  one 
side  of  them  a  tree  peony,  and  a  peach  tree  in  which 
two  yellow  birds  perch,  on  the  other  a  magnolia  tree 
in  which  two  small  birds  of  varied  color  are  perched, 
and  on  the  reverse  a  lotus  pond  in  which  are  two 
crested  ducks  (called  “mandarin  ducks”).  On  the  neck 
pomegranates,  butterflies  and  ornaments.  Underneath 
foot  a  phoenix  medallion  in  polychrome  enamels.  (Gold 
lacquer  repair  at  lip.)  Height,  17  inches. 

218 —  Famille-verte  Club-shape  Vase  Ch’ien-lung 

On  the  body,  numerous  young  ladies  look  out  from 
pavilions  of  a  summer  palace  upon  the  approach  of 
a  distinguished  equestrian  with  attendants,  altogether 
sixteen  figures  appearing;  lotus  and  ju-i  borders.  On 
shoulder  a  brocade  band  interrupted  by  phoenix 
medallions.  On  the  neck,  landscapes  with  a  traveler,  a 
pilgrim  and  a  sage.  In  famille-verte  enamels  enhanced 
by  touches  of  gold.  (Broken  and  rejoined.) 

Height,  17%  inches. 

219—  Ting-yao  Vase  K’ang-hsi 

Cylindrical,  with  sloping  shoulder  and  underbody* 
spreading  foot,  and  cylindrical  neck  with  slightly  ex¬ 
panding  lip.  Under  a  glaze  of  soft  and  luminous 
white,  a  combined  peony  and  lotus  scroll,  and  chrysan¬ 
themum-petal  and  ju-i  borders,  in  bas-relief ;  on 
shoulder  a  ju-i  band  in  relief  and  an  incised  fret 
border ;  on  the  neck,  pendent  and  upspringing  leaf- 
bands  in  relief,  separated  by  an  incised  fret. 

Height,  18  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


220 —  Powder-blue  Decorated  Vase  K'ang-hsi 
Club-shaped.  Clothed  in  a  softly  modulated  glaze 
of  the  bleu-fouette,  of  soft  lustre,  with  eight  reserves  of 
creamy-white,  two  in  scroll  form  on  the  neck,  and  on 
the  body  two  circular  medallions,  two  leaf  medallions 
and  two  oblong  panels  with  indented  corners,  all 
the  reserves  penciled  in  famitte-verte  enamels  and  un¬ 
derglaze  rouge-de-fer  with  a  variety  of  flowers  and 
winging  butterflies.  Mark,  the  blue  double-ring. 

Height,  18  inches. 

221 —  Green  Hawthorn  Beaker  K'ang-lisi 

Brilliant  monochrome  glaze  of  light  green,  with  mirror 
properties  and  metallic  lustre,  supporting  a  decora¬ 
tion  of  wild  prunus  trees  in  luxuriant  blossom,  birds 
perched  on  the  branches  and  flying  overhead,  and  at 
the  foot  of  the  trees  rocks  and  young  bamboos,  the 
decoration  in  dark  grass-green,  deep  brown  for  the 
tree-trunks,  white,  and  touches  of  yellow  on  the  breasts 
of  the  birds.  Height,  27 y3  inches. 

Acquired  bg  the  late  Rudolph  E.  Schirmer  from  Otto  Fukushima, 

the  ■well-known  dealer  in  Oriental  porcelains,  as  a  specimen 
of  the  K’ang-hsi  period. 

222 —  Carved  and  Inlaid  Teakwood  and  Cinnabar  Lac¬ 

quer  Table 

Oblong,  with  three  compartments  beneath  the  top ; 
legs  quadrangular.  Top  bordered  with  a  swastika- 
lattice,  interrupted  by  panels  of  finely  drawn  floral 
sprays,  both  lattice  and  sprays  inlaid  in  silver  in 
delicate  line.  Sides  and  ends  skirted  by  borders  of 
various  floral  and  lattice  motives  incised  and  in  relief, 
and  the  legs  similarly  treated ;  knee-braces  carved  and 
pierced  in  sea-and-dragon  motive.  Set  into  sides  and 
ends  are  all  told  eight  panels  of  cinnabar  lacquer, 
carved  with  imperial  dragons  in  relief  pursuing  the 
jewel  of  power  on  a  sea  of  incised  waves. 

Length,  56y3  inches;  width,  241/,  inches. 


Afternoon  Sale 


A  SMALL  COLLECTION  OF  JAPANESE 
PRINTS 

223 —  Hiroshige 

Atago  Temple,  Tokyo.  Toto  Meisho  series.  With 
numerous  figures,  the  city  roofs  below,  and  the  distant 
blue  river  with  several  sail.  Horizontal  print. 

224 —  Hiroshige 

Kanaya.  Tokaido  series.  Trees  on  green  hillsides,  an 
equestrian  and  pedestrians  in  a  road  between  them, 
and  beyond  the  river  mountains  and  the  cone  of  Fuji. 
Upright  print. 

225 —  Hiroshige 

Gold  Mine  at  Sado  Island.  A  scene  in  the  mountains, 
with  carriers  and  other  workers  in  the  foreground. 
Upright  print. 

226 —  Hiroshige 

Fujiveda.  Tokaido  series.  Coolies  and  travelers  at 
the  ford,  between  gray  and  green  banks  of  the  winding 
stream.  Upright  print. 

227—  Hiroshige 

Shrine  Gate  of  Tomioka  Hachiman.  Toto  Meisho 
series.  Beneath  the  Torii  women  and  men,  and  in  the 
gardens  others  accompanied  by  children.  Horizontal 
print. 

228—  Hiroshige 

Hill  of  Kanda  Myojin.  Toto  Meisho  series.  Figures 
looking  out  from  an  elevated  tea  house  beside  the 
Torii;  others  on  the  stairs.  Horizontal  print. 


Afternoon  Sale 


229 —  Harunobu 

Rolling  Snowballs.  A  young  lady  accompanies  two 
boys  who  are  rolling  up  a  huge  snowball.  Chuban 
print. 

230 —  Toyokuni 

Oishi  at  Shimabara,  Kyoto.  Forty-seven  Ronin  series. 
Numerous  figures  in  and  about  tea-house  pavilions. 
Horizontal  print. 

231 —  Hiroshige 

Observation  Tower  in  Bad  Weather  at  Gohyaku — 
Temple  of  the  Five  Hundred  Rakan.  Yedo  Meisho 
series.  Men  and  women  on  the  balcony,  overlooking 
the  valley.  Horizontal  print. 

232 —  Koriusai 

Tea  House.  Two  young  women  and  two  men  engage 
at  games  in  a  tea-house.  Horizontal  print. 

233 —  Kuniyoshi 

Court  Lady.  Standing  figure  of  a  Court  lady  in 
brilliant  dress,  carrying  a  pillow.  Upright  print. 

234 —  Toichi 

Rice  Field.  Two  farmers,  one  at  least  of  them  happy 
at  his  work,  engaged  in  transplanting  rice.  Above,  a 
poem.  Horizontal  print. 


235 — Kohayoshi  Kiyochika 

Tokyo  Views.  Land  and  water  scenes  at  Tokyo,  with 
figures.  Four  small  horizontal  prints  mounted  on  one 
card. 


Afternoon  Sale 


236 —  Kohayoshi  Kiyochika 

Asakusa  Bridge,  Tokyo.  ’Rikshas  and  coolies  with 
lanterns  on  a  rainy  night.  Horizontal  print. 

237 —  Kohayoshi  Kiyochika 

Snow  at  Komme  Hikibunidori,  Tokyo.  Snow-covered 
trees,  road  and  bridge,  with  women  on  clogs  and  coolies 
walking.  Horizontal  print. 

238 —  Kohayoshi  Kiyochika 

Two  prints.  Shimobazu  Lake:  the  shallows  filled  with 
the  lotus  in  bloom,  and  on  the  shore  a  young  woman 
and  a  coolie,  on  a  showery  day.  Ishihara  Bridge  and 
the  Oka  Bank,  Tokyo:  figures  in  silhouette  against 
the  glistening  stream  in  late  afternoon.  Horizontal. 

239 —  Kohayoshi  Kiyochika 

Three  prints.  Wistaria  in  Bloom  at  Kameido,  Tokyo, 
with  various  figures.  Night  rain  at  Yanagibara, 
Tokyo,  with  figures  carrying  umbrellas  and  lanterns. 
Kinokuni  Hill  at  Akasaka,  Tokyo,  with  the  palace 
precincts,  pedestrians  and  empty  jinrikishas  and  a 
mass  of  the  town  roofs.  Horizontal. 

240 —  Kohayoshi  Kiyochika 

Two  prints.  Morning  Sunlight  at  Hyanpogui  (near 
Ryogoku),  Tokyo,  with  a  buoy  light  and  an  active 
’ricksha  man’s  lantern  still  burning;  both  prints  the 
same.  Horizontal. 

241 —  Kohayoshi  Kiyochika 

Two  prints.  LTeno  Park,  Tokyo,  looking  toward  Ueno 
Temple,  with  a  lady  and  child  in  the  path.  Nihon- 
bashi,  Tokyo,  the  bridge  alive  with  people  in  silhouette 
in  an  evening  mist.  Horizontal. 


Afternoon  Sale 


242 —  Kohayoshi  Kiyochika 

Two  prints.  Night  at  Gohon  Matsu,  Tokyo,  with 
steamer  lights  aglow  in  the  river  and  pedestrians  with 
umbrellas  and  lanterns  on  the  shore  road.  Lightning 
over  the  Zojoji  Gate,  Tokyo,  with  figures  in  the  road¬ 
way  near  the  gate;  dated  the  thirteenth  year  of  Meiji. 
Horizontal. 

243 —  Kohayoshi  Kiyochika 

Two  prints.  Night  on  the  Sumida  River,  Tokyo,  look¬ 
ing  toward  the  Mimeguri  bank,  with  a  man  and  woman 
in  silhouette  in  the  foreground.  Gate  of  Taro  Inari, 
a  Fox  shrine.  Horizontal. 

244 —  Two  Feints 

Looking  over  the  Ryogoku  Bridge,  through  the 
Sebongi  (the  “thousand  spiles”),  by  Kohayoshi 
Kiyochika.  Also,  a  reprint  of  Hokusai’s  “Clear 
Fuji.”  Horizontal. 


AMERICAN  ART  ASSOCIATION, 

Managers. 


THOMAS  E.  KIRBY, 

Auctioneer. 


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